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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 of the world and street hustlers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Emerging in the late 1980s, gangsta rap's pioneers include Schoolly D of Philadelphia and Ice-T of Los Angeles, later expanding in ...
"Gold Guns Girls" is the fourth single from Canadian rock group Metric's fourth studio album Fantasies. The lyrics were inspired by the 1983 movie, Scarface . [ 1 ] The song was released in the UK and US for radio airplay in December 2009 and as a download single in the UK on April 25, 2010.
[75] [72] Typically, those who create this style of music are affiliated with gangs or come from socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods where crime is a way of life for many. [72] UK drill music is closely related to road rap, a British style of gangsta rap that became popular in the years prior to the existence of drill.
"Gangstas" is a song by American rapper Pop Smoke from his posthumous debut studio album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (2020). The song was written by Pop Smoke alongside producers CashMoneyAP and Swirv. An R&B song, its lyrics reflect on Pop Smoke claiming to be the King of New York and expressing his dislike for 6ix9ine.
"The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash, originally released on their 1979 album London Calling. It was written and sung by bassist Paul Simonon, who grew up in Brixton, South London. The song has a strong reggae influence, reflecting the culture of the area and the reggae gangster film The Harder They Come.
The video for the song features the band doing a mock police line-up and being chased on customised mobility scooters.The video is shot mostly in the town of Watford, England, featuring such local landmarks as the original 1970s concrete brutalist style shopping centre, the YMCA building and the spiral car park ramp visible from the ring road.
He also showed a reporter a gang Whatsapp thread with texts from gang members threatening turf wars with the Venezuelans. Octavia Mitchell, 52, lost her son to gun violence in 2010 and her nephew ...
"Gangsta Lean" is a 1993 song by American contemporary R&B/hip hop group DRS, issued as the first single from their debut studio album of the same name. The song spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart. [1] [2] It was the group's only hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 4 in 1993. [3]