Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality...
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Gangsta Rap may refer to: Gangsta rap, a style of hip hop music Gangsta Rap (album), by Ice-T, 2006 "Gangsta Rap", a 1999 single by Ill Bill Gangsta Rap...
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(August 7, 1979 – January 1, 2023), known professionally as Gangsta Boo, was an American rapper. She rose to prominence as a member of Three 6 Mafia, which...
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Eazy-E (redirect from Gangsta-Gangsta)
known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless...
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Hip hop music (redirect from Musical Genres/Rap)
sensitive direction following the commercial decline of gangsta rap. The trap and mumble rap subgenres have become the most popular form of hip hop during...
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Gangsta Rap is the eighth studio album by American rapper Ice-T. It was released on October 31, 2006 via Melee Entertainment. Production was handled by...
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G-funk (redirect from Gangsta funk)
G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily...
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Alternative hip hop (redirect from Alternative rap)
conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap. Instead, they blur genres drawing equally from funk...
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Political hip hop (redirect from Conscious rap)
and direction. Early gangsta rap often showed significant overlap with political and conscious rap. Pioneers in the gangsta rap genre such as Ice-T, N...
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Hardcore hip hop (redirect from Hardcore rap)
late 1980s, hardcore rap increasingly became largely synonymous with West Coast gangsta rap, with artists like N.W.A infusing "gangsta" themed stories of...
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Tupac Shakur (redirect from Tupac (rapper))
marginalization of other African-Americans, but he was also synonymous with gangsta rap and violent lyrics. Shakur was born in New York City to parents who were...
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1980), better known by his stage name B.G. (short for Baby Gangsta), is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his musical career in...
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bring pleasure to them". Another article writes how in the genre of "gangsta rap", women, but more specifically African American women, are lessened to...
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religiosity. Unlike the genre's more commercially-dominant counterpart gangsta rap, prog-rap artists typically disavow intracultural violence and economic materialism...
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Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American gangsta rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton...
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The "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" is a parody song based on the original Star Wars trilogy. The song was later popularized as a Flash-animated music video and...
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Geto Boys (redirect from Damn it feels good to be a gangsta)
early 1990s, several American politicians attacked rap artists associated with the subgenre gangsta rap, including the Geto Boys. A high-profile incident...
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worked with the West Coast gangsta rap stars Ice Cube and MC Eiht, as well as with his friend Devin the Dude, a fellow Rap-A-Lot signee. Scarface's 1991...
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(born November 17, 1973), better known by his stage name Gangsta Pat, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee who established himself in the Memphis...
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Coolio (category Gangsta rappers)
known by his stage name Coolio, was an American rapper. He was best known for his single "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995), which won a Grammy Award, and was...
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The following is a list of gangsta rap artists. 11/5 187 Fac 213 21 Savage 3X Krazy 40 Glocc 50 Cent Above the Law AMG AZ Ant Banks B.G. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony...
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emergence of road rap, a genre that took influences from American gangsta rap and focused on crime, gang, or violent themes. Road rap was pioneered by...
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Three 6 Mafia (redirect from Can It Be? (Gangsta Blac album))
DJ as well as rap. He had initially wanted to be a singer, but in the late 1980s and early 1990s he fell in love with the gangsta rap style, and he,...
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"Gangsta's Paradise" is a single by American rapper Coolio, released on August 1, 1995 by Tommy Boy, Warner Bros. and MCA. Interpolating Stevie Wonder's...
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his stage name WC (pronounced "dub-c"), is an American rapper and actor. He originally was a rapper in the group Low Profile and later formed his group WC...
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Fat Joe (redirect from Fat Joe da Gangsta)
introduced him to hip hop music. Under stage name Fat Joe da Gangsta and part of the rap group D.I.T.C., Cartagena was signed to Relativity Records in...
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Christian hip hop (redirect from Christian gangsta rap)
Christian hip hop (originally gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, gospel hip hop or holy hip hop) is a cross-genre of contemporary Christian music...
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Daz Dillinger (redirect from Gangsta Crunk)
he is credited with the label in pioneering West Coast hip hop and gangsta rap for mainstream audiences. Alongside Kurupt, he formed the hip hop duo...
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Gangsta's Paradise is the second studio album by American rapper Coolio, released on November 7, 1995. It is Coolio's best-selling album, with over two...
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the heavier gangster rap of the following decade. Other early artists and groups associated with Memphis rap include C-Rock, Gangsta Pat, La Chat, Skimask...
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