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I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street. -- Suge Knight
'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label. -- Coolio
I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period. -- Method Man
Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns. -- Sean Price
Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist. -- Alicia Keys
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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. -- Shane West
I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them. -- Nas
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. -- Ice Cube
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. -- Alan Vega
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him. -- Joe Bastianich
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?! -- Ice T
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under. -- Russell Simmons
I'm the gangsta Nancy Sinatra. -- Lana Del Rey
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. -- Al Capone
As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied. -- T.I.
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive. -- Bocafloja
Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on. -- Eazy-E
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. -- Jackson Katz
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. -- Tupac Shakur
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much. -- Terence Winter
The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you. -- Terry Crews
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. -- Nas
I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life. -- Coolio
Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas. -- MC Hammer
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 -- Nas
I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has. -- Lupe Fiasco
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap. -- Bocafloja
What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency. -- Bocafloja
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. -- Fergie
We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap. -- Bocafloja
I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing. -- Al Yankovic
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt and believed like, 'This is for real.' 'Cause I grew up that gangsta lifestyle. -- Schoolboy Q
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound. -- Kendrick Lamar
Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one. -- Eminem
The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant. -- Jay-Z
Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last. -- Waka Flocka Flame
Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta! -- Willie D
I am a gangsta, Ms. Katie. I don't take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do. -- Lil Wayne
We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. -- Ron Finley
I betï»¿ Eazy E is turning over in his grave, to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay -- DJ Quik
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify." -- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. -- Freddie Gibbs
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. -- Lil Wayne
I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has. -- Lupe Fiasco
I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense. -- Fashawn

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