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This 5 page paper discusses the impact of gangsta rap, and argues that the genre does in fact harm women and encourage violence, though indirectly, by creating a culture in which such acts are acceptable. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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against law enforcement officers and against women. This paper discusses gangsta rap and its social impact. Discussion The rapper Ice-T claims to have invented gangsta rap: "His first album Rhyme
Pays (1987), contains two of the most powerful early gangsta raps, 6 in the morning and squeeze the trigger and Ice-T codified the conventions of the genre in the powerful
and dangerous title song to Dennis Hoppers film Colors" (Shank, 1996). However, it was N.W.A. whose huge hit album Straight Out of Compton proved that there was a commercial market
for this music (Shank, 1996). The work of Ice-T, N.W.A. and other artists in the late 1980s, established gangsta rap "as one logical extreme of inner-city, African-American male musical expression"
(Shank, 1996). The music "celebrates the exploits of tough bad men like Stackolee" and is aimed at a "hypothetical street audience that demands brutal lyrical imagery as a hard fought
badge of urban authenticity" (Shank, 1996). Ice Cube, who was a member of N.W.A., explained that while most of the early rap records avoided "cuss words and stuff like that,"
he also said that gangsta rap wasnt deliberately meant to be shocking (Shank, 1996). In his words, "we were just trying to appeal to our own crowd ... The homeboys
down the street. We needed to talk about stuff that other people are scared to talk about" (Shank, 1996). It wasnt an attempt to be shocking and controversial, although it
is, but its also real (Shank, 1996). The language of gangsta rap is the language of the streets, and its also a language that most whites, including record execs, dont
ever hear. The opposition to gangsta rap appears to have crystallized around the song "Cop Killer," by the Body Count, released when Ice-T was the lead singer (Shank, 1996). It
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