Example sentences for: gangsta

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

  • 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.

  • Combs, who has signed and produced some of the biggest "gangsta rap" acts of the '90s, denied the allegations.

  • 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.

  • Observers variously said the incident underscored 1) the imminent decline of the "Puff Daddy" empire; 2) Combs' futile attempts to gain "street credibility"; and 3) the impossibility of blending the gangsta and corporate cultures.


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