So if I’m not mistaken, Dallas can’t be the only city with hoods! There are other hoods in major cities all across America. Dre” had to say! Not only me, but all of my homies, my whole hood, and other hoods around D-Town. I’ve seen (as well as come across) crooked cops, so me (being a kid from the slums of the murder capital of Texas) could relate to what “Ice Cube” and “Eazy-E”, “Dr. Cars, jewels, hoes, poverty, hustling, and struggling! So really, the message I got from “Gangsta rap”, was the absolute truth to me. I’ve seen it in all places! Of course, it was drug dealing on my block as well. Hell, in fact, it made America realize the struggle! But the difference is, America, back then, tried very hard to hide (and separate) such realism from corporate America (and mainstream America). Bottom line, “Gangsta” and “Rap” were on the verge of joining forces.
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That is the same group that motivated the streets to say The Police”! And remember “Straight Outta Compton”, the song about the city in Cali that’s very notorious for gangbanging? Same thing with the movie “Colors”. started was definitely, an extremely “defying” moment. The super group consisted of the legendary “Dr. Then came N.W.A.! Pioneers of Gangsta Rap”. Don’t get me wrong, it did exist where I’m from, but it was more camouflaged back then.
Later on, I came to find out this type of lifestyle existed in the West Coast decades before we caught on. Next thing, music started to change as well. We were jumping on other kids from different blocks, breaking windows, spray painting alleyways, buildings and so on.
I being from Dallas, Texas, bare “witnessing transformation” of culture like that was kind of cool! So, we little kids started running around school, as well as blocks, parks, ext. My, being 6 years old at the time, I must admit I was truly intrigued and fascinated by the movie! In fact, some of my homies in my 2nd grade class were too! Do you remember the gangsta flicks? I was only a kid when it came out! The movie “Scar face” is one of my favorites too, but it failed to cover gangsta culture from a “street standpoint”.Īnyways, do you remember the storyline of the movie “Colors”? You had Mexican gangs as well as Black gangs like the Crips and Bloods, and “Pac-Man”, the so called “cop” who had once been a gang member in his youth. Alright, let’s go back, this time, just back to 1986/1987, when gang banging was on the brink of evolution. Allow me to explain to you how the two words “Gangsta” and “Rap” joined forces. Back then, music itself wasn’t much of an influence. Throughout the years that passed, things eventually changed. But the difference is, even though these well known gangsters partially ran the streets of cities such as Chicago, New York, New Jersey, and other major cities, there’s one thing these guys failed to do! And that is to Influence the Youth! Streetwise, they were all respected, that is until things started to eventually differ. They worked as individual groups, willing to run over anyone who dare stand in their way.
They owned restaurants, ran casinos, and had many different properties and businesses in various ventures. I’m quite sure you’ve heard of the notorious “Gambino Crime Family”, and their style of doing things, as well as characters such as “Bugsy Segal, Al Capone, Carlo Gambino, and later on John Gotti. Alright, lets back track to the old days when “Moblife” and Gangstaizm” existed in a different form. And what mainstream America considered gangsta rap only made certain things more recognizable. Basically, the actual “Gang” culture back then was on the brink of nation wide (and worldwide) exposure. Quik (Quick is the Name), E-40 (Federal), Cypress Hill, Ice-T, N.W.A. Whenever the words “Gangsta Rap” comes to mind, I automatically think of artists and albums like “Dr.Dre (The Chronic, Snoop Doggy Dogg (Doggystyle), “Tha Dog Pound” (Dog Food), Spice -1 (187 Proof), Ice Cube (The Predator), 2-pac (Me Against the World and All Eyez On Me), Kid Frost (La Raza), D.J.
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