Gangsters Meet Hip-Hop

Studio 360

Gangster Rap didn’t just appeal to the young men whose violent, sexy universe it reflected — the LA street gang culture of the late ’80s and early ’90s — it appealed to the gangster voyeur in many millions of young people. Nelson George, a writer and filmmaker who has chronicled many aspects of modern African-American culture, talks about the origin of Gangsta Rap.

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