Word: gansta
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...love the gansta image. I love that music. I bought 50 Cent's album on the first day. I bought Jay-Z's album on the first day. If it wasn't for that, there would be no me. It's the yin and the yang. I'm really a real person, a personality that someone you go to school with might have. You know somebody that's like...
...trim the album to its best elements. The subject material is straightforward hip-hop turf: hustling, guns and women, all delivered with Murs slight twist. “H.U.S.T.L.E.” describes the challenge of making his way in the rap game; he pays an ambivalent tribute to gansta culture on “Walk Like A Man” and protests his honestly dirty intentions on “Bad Man.” In the Def Jux crowd, Murs rhymes are distinguished by the very ordinariness of their subject matter...
...with the family instead of letting them spend free time with their friends. Established Family’s teenaged boy doesn’t read. He listens to something with lots of bass for ten whole hours. He bops a-rhythmically and mouths the words with gusto and pseudo-gansta angst. Established family’s teenaged girl eyes Galmourpuss’ Seventeen magazine. Grrr…. this two-paged ‘Are You Way Too Jealous?’ quiz is not communal property, missy. Established Family will have ten hours of tension if mom is an Avid...
...skateboarding section, German punks roll to American rap, ranging from tame FM staples to gansta rap standards. When I first arrived, I was treated to Public Enemy's "He Got Game," a likable tune, at least in the version played over American radio. Funny thing, though: In Germany they play the unedited versions, replete with curse words and sexual imagery unfit for a teen hangout, and passing strange at a children's amusement park. But, of course, they don't understand the words--one American's obscenity is, apparently, another German's lyric...
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