A Quote by T.I.

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

T.I.

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T.I.
American - Musician
Born: September 25, 1980

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

Alicia Keys

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

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

Eazy-E

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

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

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

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

Coolio

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

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

Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns.

Sean Price

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

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

Bocafloja

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

Jerry Heller

Hey, you gotta love a gangsta girl. Even the suburban and preppy girls wanna be gangsta girls. That's the whole gimmick to it. Everybody wants to be a gangsta girl.