Example sentences for: gangsta

How can you use “gangsta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 1990s gangsta rap is rhythmically simple and harmonically negligible, 1890s ballads are melodically simple and harmonically negligible, but the effect is the same: Even as the subject matter in each case proclaims its modernity (railroads and telephone on the one hand, guns and crack on the other), in both cases, the music underneath belies it.

  • Gangsta rap artist Christopher Wallace, a k a Notorious B.I.G. , was assassinated in an apparent drive-by shooting.

  • 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.

  • Filmed a few weeks earlier, the video shows, by amazing coincidence, 2Pac dying in a drive-by shooting in a car not dissimilar to that of Suge Knight, the Death Row gangsta impresario in whose passenger seat 2Pac met his fate.

  • Gangsta rap is blamed for feeding the kids' rage.


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