50 Cent And DJ Drama Craft Street Music For Lost Tape - MTV.com
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 HipHopDX | 50 Cent And DJ Drama Craft Street Music For Lost Tape MTV.com On the artist side, Fif changed the way rappers approached the tape game with releases like 50 Cent Is the Future and No Mercy, No Fear, hijacking other rapper's instrumentals and making them his own. On the DJ side, Drama created the pivotal Gangsta ... Asher Roth – Outside | New Music Mixtape: 50 Cent x DJ Drama - The Lost Tape |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Los Angeles riots: Gangsta rap foretold them and grew after them - Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles riots: Gangsta rap foretold them and grew after them Los Angeles Times For better or for worse, the Southland style that became known as gangsta rap changed the trajectory of pop music by becoming the '90s definition of cool. For suburban fans who'd been consuming NWA's music as a race-music expression of white teenage ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Hip-hop has a power beyond gangsta rap, activist says - Chicago Tribune
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 Chicago Tribune | Hip-hop has a power beyond gangsta rap, activist says Chicago Tribune TJ Crawford would tell you that it's one thing if an outsider looks at hip-hop culture and only sees the gangsta lifestyle, sagging pants and blinding bling. But it's quite another if that's all a young person sees and winds up limiting himself or ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Unglamorous gangsta rap - Chicago Reader (blog)
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 Chicago Reader (blog) | Unglamorous gangsta rap Chicago Reader (blog) People like to criticize rap music for glamorizing illegal and immoral behavior, and honestly it has a long history stretching back to its earliest days of doing exactly that, especially since the concurrent rise of gangsta rap and the crack trade. |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Morning Coffee - The Atlantic
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Morning Coffee The Atlantic What "gangsta" rap always channeled was that outsider in all of us. And not the noble outsider, the barbarian, the viking, the savage. For me it was that sense that, "I am not a good person, and I like it." Of course I work hard at being moral, ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Rapper gets 15 to 30 in PHA worker's murder - Philadelphia Inquirer
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Rapper gets 15 to 30 in PHA worker's murder Philadelphia Inquirer By Mensah M. Dean JAMAAL SIMMONS, a North Philadelphia-based gangsta rapper known as Steel, has plenty to say on YouTube, where his homemade videos feature him celebrating guns, violence, even murder. In one video Simmons, 28, boasts: “Where I'm from ... |
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Gangsta Rap Conspiracy Theory Goes Gangbustas - Huffington Post Canada (blog)
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 Prefixmag | Gangsta Rap Conspiracy Theory Goes Gangbustas Huffington Post Canada (blog) In order to ensure profits for their new business venture, the recording executives were directed to promote gangster rap music -- a genre that was just beginning to emerge. By popularizing criminality, they would fill the private prisons and ensure ... This Prison Rap Conspiracy Theory Is Everywhere |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
DT Samplogy aka Sam Poggioli to debut latest visual instalment on a tour of ... - The Daily Telegraph
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DT Samplogy aka Sam Poggioli to debut latest visual instalment on a tour of ... The Daily Telegraph Tom Hanks dancing to gangsta rap. Nicki Minaj voicing a killer plant. They are not the nightclub scenes you'd expect on the average evening, but ones that flood from the mixed-up mind of DJ Sampology. Pictures: Dr Sampology at Sydney Music Festival No ... |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Lil Boosie murder trial: Did his lyrics show an intent to kill? - Los Angeles Times
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 RollingStone.com | Lil Boosie murder trial: Did his lyrics show an intent to kill? Los Angeles Times By Richard Fausset Lil Boosie, a gangsta rapper of national renown, is facing first-degree murder charges in his hometown of Baton Rouge, La., and this week prosecutors introduced his own recordings into court. The musician's violent and threat-filled ... Inside Louisiana Rapper Lil Boosie's Grisly Murder Trial Jury Selected In Boosie Trial + Wiz Busted For Weed Again?! Detective: Witness lied |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
Coors Light and Ice Cube Search for the Nation's "Coldest" Rapper - PW-Philadelphia Weekly
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Coors Light and Ice Cube Search for the Nation's "Coldest" Rapper PW-Philadelphia Weekly Ice Cube used to be a proud and feared rapper. He and NWA helped invent gangsta rap, and in so doing, gave voice to a culture. Now, he's shilling for a beer only sorority girls and assholes drink because ... his name just happens to be Ice Cube. |
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:08:14 PM
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