kindamindApr 20th, 2008 - 19:31:39

Gangsta music is Interpretive poetic hardcore underground unscripted experiential music-- that is what it is. You have to live in it to write about it and sing about it. That is why Alicia and others do not understand it. When Gangsta music goes mainstream everyone goes up in arms about it, including Oprah, becomes it comes to the surface and scares the sh*t out of everyone. What many do not know is that in the underground world it is salivated and listened to until records go #1.

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ktaylorApr 20th, 2008 - 22:26:37

Those who read the whole interview would have ascertained that
Alicia was actually 'defending' the genre of music. Not putting
it down. She did it very poorly though. Fiddy, sounds as
foolish as Alicia. That dude probably read two sentences of the
quote, and snapped off, just as inarticulately as Alicia did.

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smileycards.piczo.comApr 20th, 2008 - 23:37:52

I dont like gangsta rap, r'n'b or any of the musical genres like that, but you dont see me complaining to a blender do you?

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LadySkighMay 28th, 2008 - 18:07:21

I really don't agree that one 'have' to write/rap/whatever about ganster hardcore experiences inorder to make it in the music business. Just because I grew up in a ghetto and experienced a lot of hardships, does that mean that is all that I know? Is my mind closed to the other things going on around me? Can I not expand my horizons and write outside of the box of how we can have and be more without influencing our future generations to make the same wrong decisions that were made before? To be hardcore shows low self-esteem to me, striving to be better than another doing illegal things instead of overcoming the racial stigma of us as a people who are expected to be either killed or locked up.

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