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• n  (Black English) a member of a youth gang

• Almost twenty years later, virtually all gangsta rap remains a response to or an elaboration of this one album.
• One software engineer scores his with gangsta rap.
• When the political activist Al Sharpton pivoted from his war against bigmouth radio man Don Imus to a war on bad-mouth gangsta rap, the instinct among older music fans was to roll .

News & Articles

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• Freddie Gibbs Calls Young Jeezy 'A Fraud' And Demands Response
  Gangsta Gibbs fills MTV News in on the falling out with Jeezy and the Twitter threats that followed.
  June 12, 2013 - MTV
• Snoop Dogg Debuts 'Turbo' Soundtrack 'Let the Bass Go'
  The gangsta rapper drops a child-friendly contribution to the DreamWorks animated film's soundtrack.
  June 12, 2013 - AceShowbiz
• Three 6 Mafia Prepping Reunion Album Minus Juicy J
  Gangsta Boo says the release is on, with a new name but without one key player.
  June 10, 2013 - BET.com

Quotes

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• Neil Patrick Harris in ChicagoNow (blog)
  After having had such a hoot hosting the Tonys, I was thrilled to get the call about the prime-time Emmys,Harris told the AP. "But which voice to choose? I'm torn between gangsta, foppish Brit, and robot. Really proud of my robot. We'll...
• Alicia Keys in Washington Post
  My comments about `gangsta rap' were in no way trying to suggest that the government is responsible for creating this genre of rap music,Keys said in a statement issued by J Records. "The point that I was trying to make was that the term...
• Mary-Louise Parker in San Francisco Chronicle
  The soccer mom from picture-perfect Agrestic, Calif., "is a crook," says Parker, surveying the season ahead. "She's a gangsta!"