Gangsta Rap Quotes

• 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

  Rap, Gangsta, Boys

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• 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

  Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Rap, Gangsta

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• Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

  Tupac Shakur

  War, Heart, Thug

  Vibe magazine interview, February 1996.

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• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

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• I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

  Big Pun

  Dirty, Racism, Murder

  Song: Twinz, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  Alicia Keys

  Rap, Gangsta, People

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• I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
  to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

  DJ Quik

  Rap, Gay, Gangsta

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• I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Rap, Gangsta

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• 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

  Believe, Rap, Gangsta

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

  T.I.

  Rap, Gangsta, Long

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• In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

  Eyvind Kang

  Rap, Gangsta, White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Father, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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

  Rap, Gangsta, Mtv

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do with it, and it's like I'm not a killer man , I'm a musician, I'm a DJ we got like a different heart. Ya know back then when rappin' was fun, and we could immolate being gangstas; ya know Dr. Dre made the hardest gangsta rap records in the world, that didn't necessarily make him a gangsta. It was all like ya know : character, we were all in character.

  DJ Quik

  Fun, Stupid, Rap

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• 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

  Rap, Gangsta, Political

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a "Panther Baby". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers, and accounting for all his contradictions and process of growth, he achieved politically through gangsta rap things that no conscious rapper has achieved, such as establishing political, ethical, and moral codes between Crips and Bloods in the United States.

  Bocafloja

  Baby, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Nice, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Rap, Gangsta, Levels

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• 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

  Rap, Gangsta, Media

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• 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

  Basketball, Art, Rap

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• 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

  Rap, Kids, Gun

  "Fergie admits drugs shame!" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

  Will Ferrell

  Rap, Gangsta, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Smart, Rap, Gangsta

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