Word: gangsterisms
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Although Greenberg's plot revisions are reasonable and interesting, the production fails to do equal service to the show's score. Greenberg manages to eliminate some of the weaker storyline and character elements: Ludlow Lowell, the comic gangster who blackmailed Joey in the original, disappears altogether in this production...
...arrested men, who were identified from a television news videotape, are described by police as criminals linked to a vicious South Central gang known as the 8-Trey Gangster Crips. But supporters see the defendants as five young black men being scapegoated by a racist legal system that will not give them a fair trial. Says Compton City Councillor Patricia Moore: "The greatest fears we have are not of gangs, but of the criminal justice system." With 25% of all black men between 20 and 29 years old in prison, on parole or on probation, Moore is convinced the five...
...oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris is my agency. I'll never go broke, got property...
...admit that he was wrong. He has eliminated antigay messages from his raps. "I used to make fun of gay people, call them fags," he says. "But my homeys weren't down with that, so now I lay off." He has also left the most extreme, racist gangster rap to the likes of Ice Cube. Instead, he now focuses his energy on what he calls "intelligent hoodlum" material. Quincy Jones says Ice-T's work has "the best poetic quality of any rapper, and the strongest narrative I've ever heard...
...latest album, O.G. Original Gangster, is his best and most balanced. Ice-T's vivid writing and rich delivery detail life on the streets with his trademark realism and humor, but the sometimes tragic consequences of that life are also laid out. On New Jack Hustler, which was nominated for a 1992 Grammy, he sketches the dilemma of a dope dealer...