Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"If the truth is told, the youth can grow Then learn to survive until they gain control Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes Read more learn more, change the globe"
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Gangsta
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Shane West
Actor, Musician
"To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands."
Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me."
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"Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!"
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"Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing."
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"Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under."
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"Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one."
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"Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do."
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"I am a gangsta, Ms. Katie. I don't take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do."
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"The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant."
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"Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo, Lord Infamous and Crunchy [Black]. The name of the group is Da Mafia 6iX. So like I said we can't consider it a Three 6 Mafia reunion without all the members of the [group] being in it so we'll just say that it's a reunion of members of the Mafia that created a totally new group called Da Mafia 6iX. [Fans] are going crazy about it on Twitter, they happy as hell, they've been waiting on this for years, some of these members have been gone since 2000, you know, it's 2013."
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"I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!"
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"Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist."
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"I'm the gangsta Nancy Sinatra."
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