Gangsta rap

The gangsta rap is a style of Musique created towards the end of the year 1980 on the West coast of the the United States by artists like NWA, Too Short or Ice T. He was born with Compton (California) and is currently the style of prevalent Rap on the market.

The topics founders and recurring of the gangsta rap are: money and the success, primarily financial, women, the Drug and its trade, the Murders and other illegal activities the casino, which indicates the term gangsta resulting from the anglophone slang Gangster. If this style were born on the west coast, one finds it today everywhere in the United States and, in particular, on the east coast. Scooly D, gangsta conscious and claiming rappor, originating in Philadelphia or Kool G Rap, old timer New Yorkean and librettist respected, both present since the beginning of the Years 1980, illustrates this generalization of west in east.

First Gangsta Rappers resulted from gangs, and told their life in violence. It is one of the reasons for which certain topics are récurents: drug, the hatred of the police force, procuring, money.

Characteristics

This tendency is conveyed by the American rap as a majority. He is noticed by propensity that its members and their fans to raise have conspicuous marks, expensive, various clothing pendentive and jewels in strass, whose role is to reflect the richness and the dominant social position their carriers. This image goes hand in hand with that which convey the Clips these artists, often introducing the rappor like a Mâle dominating, surrounded subjected women and to which everyone is addressed with Respect.

Critical

The gangsta rap is very criticized for its topics and the attitudes of its partisans. These observations come, mainly, of a category of the population disapproving the ideas conveyed by this music: machism, selfishness, free violence, drugs… Certain rappeurs also consider that the gangsta rap must avoid taking again the same topics unceasingly, persons in charge, according to them, of a truncated image of the culture Hip hop. This rap is diffused the most among those coming from the United States.

References of the gangsta rap

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