Yes some rap including some gangster rap is ridiculous. But some of the late 80s early 90s stuff isn’t. It was a way to message about poverty caused by the government reliance, and the criminal nature that arose to survive the encroaching drug cartels that would drive the ghetto’s further into hell. Ice Cube’s America’s Most Wanted, some of Too Short, Easy-E, Pooh Man, and Mac Dre’s early stuff all follows roughly the same message about government pushed reliance and poverty, and the connected crime. Movies like New Jack City, Boyz in the Hood, Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor, Mi Vida Loca, and the best Menace II Society do pretty well to stay with these sad and destructive themes, without over-romancing the so called positives or glamour of being Gangsta.

But yes you are right, everything else is hype, money and women, and fake hood rats “rollin on Dubs in my Escalade” type BS.

Yes some rap including some gangster rap is ridiculous. But some of the late 80s early 90s stuff isn’t. It was a way to message about poverty caused by the government. Ice Cube’s America’s Most Wanted, some of Too Short, Easy-E, Pooh Man, and Mac Dre’s early stuff all follows roughly the same message about government pushed reliance and poverty, and the connected crime. Movies like New Jack City, Boyz in the Hood, Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor, Mi Vida Loca, and the best Menace II Society do pretty well to stay with these sad and destructive themes, without over-romancing the so called positives or glamour of being Gangsta.

But yes you are right, everything else is hype, money and women, and fake hood rats “rollin on Dubs in my Escalade” type BS.

Yes some rap including some gangster rap is ridiculous. But some of the late 80s early 90s stuff isn’t. It was a way to message about poverty caused by the government. Ice Cube’s America’s Most Wanted, some of Too Short, Easy-E, Pooh Man, and Mac Dre’s early stuff all follows roughly the same message about government pushed reliance and poverty. Movies like New Jack City, Boyz in the Hood, Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor, Mi Vida Loca, and the best Menace II Society do pretty well to stay with these sad and destructive themes, without over-romancing the so called positives or glamour of being Gangsta.

But yes you are right, everything else is hype, money and women, and fake hood rats “rollin on Dubs in my Escalade” type BS.

Yes some rap including some gangster rap is ridiculous. But some of the late 80s early 90s stuff isn’t. It was a way to message about poverty caused by the government. Ice Cube’s America’s Most Wanted, some of Too Short and Mac Dre’s early stuff all follows roughly the same message about government pushed reliance and poverty. Movies like New Jack City, Boyz in the Hood, Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor, Mi Vida Loca, and the best Menace II Society do pretty well to stay with these sad and destructive themes, without over-romancing the so called positives or glamour of being Gangsta.

But yes you are right, everything else is hype, money and women, and fake hood rats “rollin on Dubs in my Escalade” type BS.