This Is Gangsta, And This Is Not

**omoplatypus** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 12:49pm

i finally come back to this thread and see a butthurtathon started.

maybe i should have qualified my post a bit more.
the first video with the mashup, i don't know if that's gangsta or not, but it looks like it to me, so i wasn't being 100% shitassed when i posted it.

the christian side hug video, i was hoping to see people call it out for what it was. a minstrel show. when middle class and up white kids act like "black gangstas" it's offensive and insulting. all they lack is the black face to go with it.

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 12:50pm

Originally Posted by White Kimbo

i finally come back to this thread and see a butthurtathon started.

Of course, if you, WW or me are involved that tends to happen on a regular basis.

It is just who starts it that differs from thread to thread.

**Kintanon** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 1:03pm

YouTube- 'Chap-Hop History' by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer

Sooo..... is this Gangsta or not?

**TheRuss** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 1:16pm

Acid The Great: I dunno, man. I like Jeezy, but White just isn't doing it for me.

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IIF: You remind me of that radio station in GTA: San Andreas with a playlist of songs that were later sampled by rappers. Entertaining and educational.

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Originally Posted by White Kimbo

a minstrel show. when middle class and up white kids act like "black gangstas" it's offensive and insulting.

No and no.
1) What you're describing is not a minstrel show*** (EDIT: Never mind this - see footnote) - it's much closer to blackface.
2) They weren't acting like gangstas. We've already been over the distinction between hip-hop and gangsta.

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Is. Is as ****.
YouTube- Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part II (Official Video) Superb Quality

"Well, Rashad just won the battle of the entrance music."

Is not:

YouTube- Kanye West - Power

*** EDIT

The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface. Blackface branched off from the minstrel show.

Okay, I learned something today.

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 1:24pm

Originally Posted by TheRuss

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IIF: You remind me of that radio station in GTA: San Andreas with a playlist of songs that were later sampled by rappers. Entertaining and educational.

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You should know your roots IMO. 80% of the reason I got into rap/Hip-Hop was because I grew up listening to jazz and R&B. Half the fun of rap, before the lyrics became more violent and such, was trying to name the original songs or jazz riffs they sampled or in some cases stole.

For example:
YouTube- Isaac Hayes - Hung Up On My Baby

So, of course I enjoyed some of the ghetto boys early stuff.

**SonofSpiridonov** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 2:12pm

Is:
YouTube- Miles Davis & Co. At the Isle of Wight Festival

Is not:
YouTube- John Cena and Kenzo Suzuki in a battle rap.

**omoplatypus** · Posted On: 5/30/2010 2:55pm

Originally Posted by It is Fake

Of course, if you, WW or me are involved that tends to happen on a regular basis.

It is just who starts it that differs from thread to thread.

i don't start ****, you and WW just get jealous because of my kick ass ninja fort i built and wont let you to fags play in.

**Squerlli** · Posted On: 5/31/2010 10:58pm

This instrumental alone is 7 different kinds of disgusting.

SOM 4LIFE
YouTube- Souls of Mischief - Cab Fare

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 6/04/2010 6:47pm

If that is 7 kinds of disgusting this Man right here is Infinite.

Godfather of Soul and Rap IMO.

Oh Yes Is:
YouTube- James Brown - Funky Drummer

For the time it was recorded Is:
YouTube- Millie Jackson - i cry

Isn't but sampled all over the place:
YouTube- King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew