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?Things Just Ain’t the Same’: Hip-Hop’s Reconstruction of the Gangster Rap Identity

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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Five Best Things Ever to Happen to Online Music

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The bloom of computers is so supermassive that computers do not only dominate the field of IT, they have also stretched their wings to arts and entertainment, especially music.

Back in our parents’ day, they didn’t have any iPod and ringtone and music download. They didn’t have the luxury and convenience of our music blogs and snazzy stuffs like that. E.g., when they wanted to seize the new Duran Duran album, they couldn’t just troll the Internet for it, they had to do it the old-fashioned way — by hiking to the store, standing in line, waiting under blazing sun or pouring rain. That’s why we youngsters don’t appreciate that so-called real value of music. Or Duran Duran.

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