Word: gangstas
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...Black puritans have been trying to ban the word since the 1920s when the white hipster Carl Van Vechten published the book Nigger Heaven. They continued their war through attacks on Redd Foxx, blaxploitation and Donald Goines. But all their efforts have been rewarded with gangsta rap, an art form that has made nigger arguably the most well-known racial or ethnic slur on the planet...
Here’s the real question, though: Are that many Americans really shocked, or are media outlets simply using what used to be a national issue to spark controversy against an oft-criticized sect of our population? After all, the days of politicians denouncing gangsta rap and smashing tapes on national TV are long gone. And besides a few Eminem references about Dick Cheney’s wife and the occasional hunting joke, the vice president’s name isn’t being trashed by rappers with anywhere near the same kind of ferocity...
Once the rest of the YouTube generation enters the workplace, "video résumés are going to be as ubiquitous as PDAs or iPods," says Mark Oldman, a co-president of Vault.com. Just leave out the gangsta rap. For your sake and ours...
...minutes of online-video fame. A Vault.com post features a blue-shirted manager with a knee jiggle and a boring spiel. A job-seeking techie on YouTube admits charmingly that he has no experience editing videos--and then packs his with gimmicky cutaways. One software engineer scores his with gangsta rap. And did I just fast-forward through that video on HireVue because of the guy's bad teeth...
...Besides the fact that his songs are catchy and soulful, I love the fact that they’re so anti-gangsta...