Gangsta rap: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Music genre

| name = '''GANGSTA RAP'''

|bgcolor = Grey

|color = Black

| stylistic_origins = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]

| cultural_origins = Mid 1980s, United States

| instruments = [[Drum machine]], [[beatboxing]], [[vocals]]

| popularity = Mid-[[1990s]] to early-[[2000s]], peaked in late [[1990s]].

| derivatives = [[Mafioso rap]], [[Dirty rap]], [[Horrorcore]]

| subgenrelist =

| subgenres = [[Mafioso rap]]

| fusiongenres =

| regional_scenes = [[West Coast hip hop]], [[East Coast hip hop]], [[Southern hip hop]], [[Midwest hip hop]], [[Chicano rap]]<!-- Chicano rap might be considered West Coast. No scenes outside US? -->

| other_topics = [[Horrorcore]]

'''Gangsta rap''' (also called '''Gangster rap''', '''Gansta rap''', '''G rap''' '''Gangsta hip hop''') is a [[subgenre]] of [[hip hop]] that reflects the violent lifestyles of some inner-city youths. ''Gangsta'' is a [[non-rhotic]] pronunciation of the word ''[[gangster]]''. The genre was pioneered in the mid 1980s by rappers such as [[Afroman]] and [[Ice Cube]], and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like [[N.W.A]]. After the national attention that Ice-T and N.W.A created in the late 1980s and early 1990s, gangsta rap became the most commercially lucrative subgenre of hip hop.

==Notable Artists==

* [[Ice Cube]]

* [[Eazy-E]]

* [[Fat Joe]]

* [[2 Chainz]]

* [[Wu-Tang Clan]]

* [[N.W.A.]]

* [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]]

* [[South Park Mexican]]

* [[Kid Frost]]

* [[Ja Rule]]

* [[Rick Ross]]

* [[Ganskta N-I-P]]

* [[The Game (rapper)|The Game]]

* [[G-Unit]]

* [[Ice-T]]

* [[T.I.]]

* [[Dr. Dre]]

* [[K-Rino]]

* [[B-Real]]

* [[The LOX]]

* [[E-40]]

[[Category:Pronunciation]]