Word: thugging
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Towards the end of her speech, she showed a tattoo on her forearm which reads “Thug Life” and also read several of her poems, which she said are themselves “calls to conscience...
...rappers seize every opportunity to reaffirm their “gangsta” credentials to an unforgiving public. Curtis Jackson must be 50 Cent, twenty-four/seven. The problem is that 50 Cent is made up. He is nearly a cartoon—a hulking black superman who performs thug love to hundreds of women, parties incessantly while not drug dealing or murdering; and who, most importantly, is bulletproof. He cannot live up to that image, because it is impossible. Yet he and the public will continue to feed into it, until he is either exposed as fake or sadly...
...without a religious point of view." And just as menacing. While driving to his regular squash game, thinking of the dinner he will cook that night to celebrate the return of his grown daughter from France, Perowne has a small collision. The other car is driven by a minor thug named Baxter, one of those twitchy characters a writer summons up to give a face to all the foul energies at large in the world. Before the day is over, Baxter and Perowne will cross paths again. It won't be pretty...
Admittedly, 50 is not the most gifted lyricist in the game. His imperfections are evident when he raps opposite Eminem on “GATman and Robbin,” a thug interpretation of the classic Batman television show theme. But no one can deny that 50 is one of the most exciting hip hop personalities. The reckless bravado that he displays on The Massacre is both comical and troubling. Although he has said in interviews that he is not afraid of death, he shows little respect for his life on songs like “Piggy Bank?...
Anderson, who sported a white, Tupac-inspired “Thug Life” T-shirt, white do-rag, and dog tags, said he has been a fan of hip hop “since birth...