Gangsta Rap

Back in the day when you listen to Tupac, you could tell that he was rapping about things going on in his community. He rapped about it because that was reality for him at that time. He really didn’t even like the situation but that’s how it was. There were many times when efforts were made to stop the violence. These were not events that he made an appearance at, these w

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Rappers today market shoes, have clothing lines, do commercials etc. You also have more recent Eightball and MJG, the Lox, Nas, Ice Cube, Jay Z, Mack 10, etc… An up and coming rapper wants people to know that they have had to struggle. The streets are still rough and they can handle anything the streets can throw at them. Rappers also no longer live in the hood, they very seldom visit the hook however in the video that is the first thing you see. At the top of the list is street credibility. Now according to his music he doing big thangs in the streets in the drug game. The streets are not what they once were.

Today’s Gangstas are different, times have changed. Pastor Troy is a well known Gangsta rapper from Georgia (shout out to home team) and he actually went to college at first. The bottom line is that Gangsta rap is VERY marketable and it will be around and I will listen to it for years to come. When you think of past artist with a lot of street credibility you think of NWA, Tupac, and Biggie mainly. It doesn’t matter how it was, they are the man now. Events that were organized for the young people to see and hear something other than gunshots on a daily bases.

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