gangsta rap
noun
: hip-hop music with lyrics explicitly portraying the violence and drug use of American inner-city gang life
gangsta rapper
noun
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Brixton has a large Afro-Caribbean population and is also considered to be the home of the U.K. 's drill music, a subgenre of gangsta rap music.
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Anna Gordon, TIME, 20 June 2024
The gangsta rap legend has released 21 studio albums and received 20 Grammy nominations.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
Jo is the charismatic, mercurial queen bee, a girl obsessed with John Gotti and gangsta rap.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
Advertisement But before they became recognized as the pioneers of gangsta rap, the members of N.W.A trafficked in the electro-rap tradition too.
—Liz Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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Anna Gordon, TIME, 20 June 2024
The gangsta rap legend has released 21 studio albums and received 20 Grammy nominations.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
Jo is the charismatic, mercurial queen bee, a girl obsessed with John Gotti and gangsta rap.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
Advertisement But before they became recognized as the pioneers of gangsta rap, the members of N.W.A trafficked in the electro-rap tradition too.
—Liz Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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