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?Things Just Ain’t the Same’: Hip-Hop’s Reconstruction of the Gangster Rap Identity
February 10, 2010
Gangster rap, or hardcore rap, is generally considered a sub genre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it makes use of images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2). The top four images associated with the genre are violence, drugs, materialism and sexual promiscuity.
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