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Type of rap music, often with lyrical subjects based on the violence inherent in the gangster lifestyle. The first gangster rapper was Ice T. He himself said in an interview about the history of gangster rap: |
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Gangsta rap is a genre of rap music, often with lyrical subjects based on the violence inherent in the gangster lifestyle. |
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:"The first record that came out along those lines was Schooly D's 'P.S.K.' Then the syncopation of that rap was used by me when I made Six In The Morning. The vocal delivery was the same: '...P.S.K. is makin' that green', '...six in the morning, police at my door'. When I heard that record I was like "Oh shit!" and call it a bite or what you will but I dug that record. My record didn't sound like P.S.K., but I liked the way he was flowing with it. P.S.K. was talking about Park Side Killers but it was very vague. That was the only difference, when Schooly did it, it was "...one by one, I'm knockin' em out". |
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One of the first gangsta rappers went under the pseudoname Ice T. |
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All he did was represent a gang on his record. I took that and wrote a record about guns, beating people down, and all that with Six In The Morning. At the same time my single came out, Boogie Down Productions hit with Criminal Minded, which was a gangster-based album. It wasn't about messages or "You Must Learn", it was about gangsterism. That was the New York shit. So there's no question that I was before Eazy because if you go back to 1982 with Cold Wind Madness, I was talking about being "the pimp, the player, the woman-layer", but Six In The Morning would be the first "Gangsta Rap", so to speak. After that, Cube wrote Boyz In Tha Hood which was like a bite of Six In The Morning [with the syncopation]. It's like "Six in the morning, police at my door..." and "The boyz in the hood are always hard...". If you play Boyz In The Hood at the same time as Six In The Morning, you'll hear they even break at the same point."(www.daveyd.com) |
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Other important gangster rappers include [Compton's Most Wanted]?, [Above The Law]? and 2Pac. [Boogie Down Production]?'s first album "Criminal Minded" probably also influenced gangster rap, and both the Beastie Boys and Run DMC were sampled and otherwise quoted by NWA and [Eazy E]?, who popularized the new style that at first was basically hardcore rap, but later on, former NWA member Dr. Dre introduced more melodic elements especially from the realm of [P Funk]?, creating a new style called G Funk. The style flourished on the west coast, but eventually many east coast artists adopted the lyrical style. Musically, however, the east did not abandon his own brand of hip hop. In the 1990s, at least on a lyrical level gangster rap also influenced rappers from the east coast, e.g. DMX?, [Jay Z]? and [Notorious BIG]?. Now the biggest gangster rappers are ice Cube who still follows the original P funk, Snoop Dogg who raps in a G funk, Warren G is still know as one of the Greatest rappers of all time and he created a lot of the spirt. |
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Other important gangster rappers include [Comptons Most Wanted]?, [Above The Law]? and 2Pac. [Boogie Down Production]?'s first album "Criminal Minded" probably also influenced gangster rap, and both the Beastie Boys and Run DMC were sampled and otherwise quoted by NWA and [Eazy E]?, who popularized the new style that at first was basically hardcore rap, but later on, former NWA member Dr. Dre introduced more melodic elements especially from the realm of [P Funk]?, creating a new style called G Funk. The style flourished on the west coast, but eventually many east coast artists adopted the lyrical style. Musically, however, the east did not abandon his own brand of hip hop. In the 1990s, at least on a lyrical level gangster rap also influenced rappers from the east coast, e.g. DMX?, [Jay Z]? and [Notorious BIG]?. Currently major gangster rappers include ice Cube who still follows the original P funk; Snoop Dogg who raps in a G funk; and Warren G who still know as one of the Greatest rappers of all time, credited as creating a lot of the spirit of rap. |
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