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It's what I call Gangsta Tales, like watching a western or Goodfellas.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2008
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It's what I call Gangsta Tales, like watching a western or Goodfellas.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Graeme Thomson 2008
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It's what I call Gangsta Tales, like watching a western or Goodfellas.
Expecting Rain 2008
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Gangsta is defined in the urban dictionary as: A sociopathic member of the inner-city underclass, known primarily for being antisocial and uneducated.
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Gangsta from the late 90s to the present is mostly superficial crap that embraces materialism, misogyny, machismo and violence.
Matthew Yglesias » The Ultimate Nineties Alt-Rock Playlist 2007
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VH1, MTV, videos, music and movie industry and even games push that being a low life criminal Gangsta is what is cool now.
Crime Blog Digest 2006
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If youre fluent in Gangsta, you can also use the Pirate - Gangsta glossary.
Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003
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I am not defending the self-demeaning, nihilistic, 'niggerization' that is so called Gangsta, or Thug Life culture.
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So it only makes sense that someone would finally bring the two together with the cleverly titled Gangsta Rap Coloring Book.
Mummy, What Colour Is Arterial Blood? The Nag 2007
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So, while the mainstreaming of the Gangsta was the second factor, the third was the ascension of Clear Channel, who according to Chang, "... went from owning 40 stations in 1916 to 1240 stations in 2003, commanding a whopping 28\% share of all radio revenues and 27\% of all radio listeners."
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