gangsta rap


gangsta rap

noun

Definition of GANGSTA RAP

: rap music with lyrics explicitly portraying the violence and drug use of urban gang life and typically expressing hostility toward whites, women, and civil authority
gangsta rapper noun

First Known Use of GANGSTA RAP

1990

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