How To Use Gangsta In A Sentence
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Makes me look a gangsta rapper!
The Sun
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How many albums can a group of stoned-out gangstas make about weed and killing people?
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The band's strict avoidance of a ‘stereotypical, gangsta-styled’ video speaks for their desire to avoid parody, and they rejected any script that called for them to present themselves as would-be gangstas.
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While original gangstas like NWA presented graphic dispatches from LA gang turf where few reporters were brave enough to tread, he has been sold as a GI Joe doll with real bullet holes.
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Black commentators offer the most intensive critiques of gangsta rap.
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Not only is this a big seller with the wannabe gangstas, this gnome has gotten some street cred from real playas as well.
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When gangsta rap took over in the early '90s, hip-hop's surrealist streak didn't die: it just moved to Britain.
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Of course gangsta rap isn't the only reason for the riots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Usually, American male videos involve either gangstas driving around slowly in a pimped-out car glaring at pensioners, or a boy looking sad in the rain with his shirt off.
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Plus, his matricidal ramblings are beyond the pale even for hip hop; gangsta rappers, like their celluloid counterparts, will consistently take hiatus from issuing colorful death threats to pay homage to dear old mom.
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Gangsta rap is generally considered a subgenre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop.
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Might as well intrust your 401k to a system of Iraqi Gangstas!
Did Costumes and Props Undercut the Seriousness of the G-20 Protests? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Just as gangsta rap in the US was closely associated with LA gang culture, Rio funk consolidated itself as the soundtrack of organised crime.
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The Gangstas are currently resurveying Breathing Cave in Bath County, Virginia and Cassell Cave in Pocahontas County West Virginia on the third weekend of each month.
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In the February issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Robert D. Kaplan extrapolated from the implosion of public order in West Africa and posited a world slowly overwhelmed by sociopathic street gangs, each with its own charismatic gangsta-meshuga.
The Threat Of Tribalism
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Indeed, NBC Universal, which owns MSNBC, also owns Interscope Records, a label notorious for hiring gangsta rap artists.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives
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Warner Brothers Records is eying a deal with the Gospel Gangstas, and funk bassist Bootsy Collins worked on the latest album by the Disciples of Christ.
Rhymes Of Redemption
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Over the next two decades the band of gentlemen gangstas would go through many line-ups, with personnel living in diverse corners of the world, but the standard of excellence would never dip.
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Which gangsta rapper did he go to see and how did he avoid punishment?
Times, Sunday Times
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Both writers were a seminal influence on early gangsta rap.
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Which gangsta rapper did he go to see and how did he avoid punishment?
Times, Sunday Times
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His nasal, half-comic vocal style, which became known as gangsta duck, was widely imitated during the early years of rap.
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He's pure street and the real thugs and gangstas on lockdown respect that.
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Gangsta rap is differentiable from other rap music in that gangsta rap makes use of images of urban life that are often associated with crime.
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Like you he hates wannabe gangstas who lie about their history of crime and drugs.
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Certainly, talking to Popin Pete doesn't ring any gangsta alarm bells.
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Although his sound is gangsta rap, and Bay Area hyphy (hyperactive), Young Bari uses no profanity.
Len Hollie: Bay Area Rappers Return to NYC Looking For a Win
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Gangsta culture may look glamorous to some but transport it to the Midlands and it looks daft.
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If only all gangstas shared his capitalist (not to mention family-oriented) spirit, they would still be alive.
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May 5, 2010 at 9:46 am ai doan eben lyke teh sawng…onlee taht wun lil bit uv it….inn kais aneewun waz thinkin ai wuzza ‘gangsta’ *fawls awn floor laffin at teh bery idea taht aneewun wud pawsiblee fink tath snert snert*
Dey seez me rollin’ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Unlike other rappers who name-drop the hug drug - mostly narrow-minded gangstas turned empathetic M.C.'s - they have never needed psychedelic drugs to tap into their own outré space.
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He writes about two of the fastest growing musical genres - alternative music and gangsta rap.
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He is upping the ante with a collection of scatological ditties that would make more than a few gangsta rappers blush.
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Technology has nothing do with the emergence of the explicit lyrics of gangsta rap.
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FOUR middle-class friends have shot to internet stardom - after making a hilarious gangsta rap music video about their genteel home town.
The Sun
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Let's fast-forward from the Vibe Awards to the Source Awards, another show where the thugs, gangstas and pimps made their presence felt.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of gangsta rap, it was the age of wanksta rap, it was the season of Kanye West dissing George W. Bush over Hurricane Katrina, so I went on MTV and said I'd vote for W-Man if I wasn't a convicted felon; we had everything before us-endorsements for Reebok G-Unit Sneakers and G-Unit Heavy Weight Clothing — we had nothing before us without a personal book imprint that I could introduce at Borders; we were all going direct to Queens, we were all going direct the other way to Hell's Kitchen.
Hip-Hop Lit: New and Noteworthy
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The problems with society are increasing seen as cultural ones, which music such as gangsta rap not only reflects, but creates.
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We took the lift to a high floor and stepped out into a corridor where the air trembled with the oppressive thump of somebody's gangsta rap.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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His lyrics are lightweight gangsta rap, telling of the woes of shooting up and living on amphetamines.
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They pushed their own style of gangsta rap into the mainstream, crossing boundaries to introduce white suburban America to unfamiliar subjects.
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One of the good things that could be said about the character was that he nailed the fake gangsta, wannabe rude-boy young British male who wants to be down with hip-hop really, really well
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The other reality depicted in American cinema is the gangsta reality – all Italians are mobsters; all blacks are street thugs; Latinos are non-existent or comedic.
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In the current climate of money-grubbing gangstas, fake rockers and endorsement-laden rap-metalers, this album is like a welcome breath of hate in a world of posers and wannabes.
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The gangstas are too scared cause they don't want to get shot.
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A reassuring assortment of hard-bitten men in sportscoats and gold-chained gangstas frowned at the tables.
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Yet Ferdinand's art extends beyond the ‘gangstas' that to a degree have typecast him as an artist.
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“born-again illiterate Jesus freaks, tattooed and pierced illiterate suburban kids, fake gangsta illiterate urban youth, orange-skinned horse-faced illiterate high-school dropout gals who aspire to celebrity sluthood or a career in the Army, violent illiterate psychopathic “Juggalos” and a bedeviled minority of depressed semi-literate goth & emo teens in the Midwest”
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He has at one time or another promoted an image of a pimp daddy mack, a dope peddler, a businessman, a political teacher, a gangsta, and a revolutionary.
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FOUR middle-class friends have shot to internet stardom - after making a hilarious gangsta rap music video about their genteel home town.
The Sun
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They are supposed to be the epitome of New York gangsta, but they're certainly not the most interesting gangstas in New York.
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In ‘Black Zombie’, he veers back towards black conscious, deriding the media's stereotypes of African-American as gangstas and hoes, the inequality in the educational system, and black-on-black violence.
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After getting several guns pulled out on me at the Grand Streetside by local gangstas and having managers that "partied" treat me uncool just because I was in a band with cops, I decided that I was better off making CDs that didn't sell that well as opposed to selling other people's that DID.
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Oh, and Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow, an Asian gangstah, takes a gay stereotype and makes the character the officially funniest supporting character in filmdom.
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While the history of gangsta rap music is fairly short, there is a good deal of discourse circulating in popular culture about the treatment of women by men within this genre.
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Kahane was a gangsta-meshuga, a nut case who could talk the talk.
The Threat Of Tribalism
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What more can you say about a gangsta rap superstar who spits, deadpan: ‘Hokey pokey dopey lokey okey dokey’?
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Although it is unusual for country music to be criticised in the same breath as gangsta rap and heavy metal, the researchers found that any violent lyrics can trigger aggression.
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Though hip-hop started out in New York and developed its most popular offshoot, gangsta rap, in the Wild West, most post-millennial innovations are occurring down south.
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His entry into in the music business is a perfect example of how gangsta rap packages real violence as entertainment.
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Come to think of it, a "gangsta" is an odd and disturbing thing for a high school teacher to admire anyway.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy.
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His words were as profane as any gangsta rapper's, but he preferred self-mockery to the usual braggadocio.
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There are at least two distinct perspectives on ‘being a lady’ in gangsta rap.
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Though the commentary on each genre is apt and long awaited, his musical poetics crystallize best in his attention to gangsta rap.
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A decade later, gangsta rap originated in Compton, California.
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gangstas in South Central L.A.
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To clarify that statement-what I was saying at the interview-the term gangsta rap was so over-sloganized during that time ... and that in so many ways, everyday people, as well as the government, could have done so much more to really obliterate and eradicate things that were going on in the community at that time that forced the artists to talk about and discuss so strongly what they saw, what they lived with every day.
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Scoring drugs in his world is not about exchanging a suitcase of money for a suitcase of cocaine with Colombian gangstas - it is about buying a couple of pills in a nightclub or borrowing hash off a mate to get you through the weekend.
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He seems to believe that the answer to school violence is not stopping gun sales but censoring television and gangsta rap lyrics.
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Today, instead of fantasy literature, wimpy geeks are totally into gangsta rap, and there is no place in gangsta rap for swords.
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Makes me look a gangsta rapper!
The Sun
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The Homies -- tiny LA Chicano gangsta figurines sold in gumball machines -- are drawing fire from the LAPD, who want their sale discontinued on the grounds tha they provide a poor role model for Hispanic children.
Boing Boing: November 11, 2001 - November 17, 2001 Archives
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Potato rustlers have been at their crop, although the farmers suspect the island's affluent residents are helping themselves rather than an organised raid orchestrated by gourmet gangstas.
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The chattering classes love to read the new Zadie Smith or hear Benjamin Zephaniah discussing his new book, "Gangsta Rap".
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From this we can infer that the transgressed boundary in line 1 is indeed that of hip-hop music generally, and probably gangsta rap specifically.
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Gangsta rap is differentiable from other rap music in that gangsta rap makes use of images of urban life that are often associated with crime.
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If they'd been gangsta rap musicians, they probably would have spoken differently, but I wasn't gettin 'jiggy wit dat, yo.
June 2006
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Of course gangsta rap isn't the only reason for the riots.
Times, Sunday Times
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While European rap artists may listen to U.S. gangsta rap, their own lyrics are expected to represent their own social environment.
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While gangstas expend their energy promoting fashion labels or flogging sneakers, even the grimiest rappers are positively buffed by Jamaican standards.
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On the other had, the new gangstas, says Coates, are merely romanticizing a largely, and thankfully, bygone era.
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The Bacchanalia takes place to the soundtrack of hate-fuelled gangsta rap. • How does this conservative look forward to a new Tom Wolfe novel?
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His nickname, "Inuksta," tattooed across his back is his own Inuit play on the word "gangsta.
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Five 15-year-old boys drop out of school and become wannabe gangstas, exchanging Singapore's fiercely motivational culture of education and career for the depressive nihilism of petty crime.
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Alicia Keys thinks that gangsta rap is a white conspiracy to get black people to kill each other.
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I just want to remember "Klick-Kult mit Gangsta-Rap" in unadulterated bot-grish.
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Of course gangsta rap isn't the only reason for the riots.
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