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Public Enemy was eclipsed by gangsta rap , which glorifies "Thug Life" (as it was deemed by Tupac Shakur ). Gangsta rap's attitude is disturbing, but it's mostly escapist entertainment, rooted as much in the blaxploitation movies of the early '70s as in reality.
When California Caucasians are practicing Feng Shui and Zen meditation, when suburban Asian teens are reciting gangsta rap lyrics, when salsa sales are surging past ketchup sales, how can we speak with a straight face about the ineffaceable whiteness of American life?
Then there is the "perplexing chasm [that] separated the two Tupac Shakurs": the gangsta rapper (bad Tupac) and empathetic actor (good Tupac) (Richard Corliss, Time).
I've been at conferences where gangsta rappers have been characterized as intellectuals, apparently on the theory that the term is apt when celebrating anyone who ever had and expressed an idea some other intellectuals liked.
The British magazine Private Eye updated it for two gangsta rappers: