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Gangsta Rap Shame 

The overwhelming sense of shame and embarrassment experienced when a person is discovered while privately enjoying early to mid 1990’s gangsta rap music. The most common sufferers are middle aged white men.
Dave: You can't help but turn it up and bob your head a little when some 90's rap comes on! Until you pull up next to a minivan and you get the "You are waaay too old to be bumpin’ 2pac." look! So you quickly turn it down & pretend like it wasn't you.

Todd: I too suffer from Gangsta Rap Shame. *fist bumps*

Dave: Word.
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Non-Gangsta Rap 

Much like clean rap, it is rap music that doesn't focus on the gangster lifestyle and mostly doesn't have any graphic or explicit lyrics.
Before the rise of gangsta rap artists like Ice-T, Public Enemy and N.W.A., some notable non-gangsta rap artists were Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang.
Non-Gangsta Rap by CelticEagle February 20, 2019

Non-gangsta-rap 

Middle and Late 80s Early 90s-When N.W.A,Ice T,Snoop Dogg,Nas etc where dominating gangsta rap and rap but Digital Underground,A Tribe called quest etc were doing non gangsta rap

Late 90s- When 2pac and biggie,Jay -Z,Nas etc where dominating rap and were gangsta rappers there were rappers like Ma$e,Lauryn Hill,Busta rhymes etc doing non gangsta rap

Early 2000s- 50 cent and Jay-Z were the biggest gangsta rappers but Kanye West and Eminem were doing non gangsta rap

After the old school non gangsta rap and gangsta rap

Non-gangsta-rap has better lyrics then gangsta rap
Non-gangsta-rap by Woowiewoow July 20, 2021

Satanic gangsta rap

A type of music that is a mixture of gangsta rap and porn music.

Anarchy gangsta rap 

A type of music that is a mixture of anarchy rock and gangsta rap. It has the sound of Gangsta rap and the antigovernment lyrics and sentiment of anarchy rock.

Chipmunk gangsta rap 

A rap record spinning at 45 instead of 33 1/3 rpm.
This chipmunk gangsta rap sounds goofier than these dudes want it to, perhaps I should slow the turntable down so they sound more like the devil, that would sound really scary the way the rappers wanted it to, wouldn't it?

gansta rap 

rap that glorifies, or at least frequently refers to or discusses, the gangster life (whatever that may be. i have no interest in finding out first-hand what that means.) personally, i despise it and i find it to be the source of many problems in today's society. half these rappers aren't even good role-models. i'm sorry 50 cent, but when you get shot that many times, maybe there's a reason and maybe you should stop what you are doing and re-examine your principles.
seems to fairly popular at large social events (prom, homecoming, whatever) because it is 'easy to dance to.' uhh, last time i checked, having sex through your clothing wasn't called dancing. sorry dudes. get a room for that stuff.
apparently if you don't like gangsta rap, then you are considered strange/weird/a freak/rude. uhh. what?
a lot of it seems to be about the same stuff. sex, violence, women being referred to as "bitches" and "hos." let's not forget the 'music' videos are really just a bunch of scantily-clad women gyrating in front of the camera while the rapper makes odd hand signs and wears lots of gold (that might not actually be real even) and baggy clothing. often includes excessive profanity and "pimped out" cars/houses/rubber duckies/donuts/whatever.
i can't understand most of the words because (A) it's mostly ghetto slang that i don't understand, (B) it goes way too fast, or (C) the amount of profanity has made me not want to pay attention to the rest of the material.

i really have no idea if there's an underground 'scene' for this stuff, but to be honest, i'm not very interested in finding out at the moment.
my friend: you don't listen to gansta rap?
me: nope. i prefer indie rock and emo music, but if you want to listen to gangster rap, then i can't tell you not to.
my friend: omg you're so weird, what's wrong with you? should i turn the radio in my own car off?
me: no, it's your car, you can play whatever you want in it. there's nothing wrong with me, i just don't like it.
my friend: you're so weird.. you don't like rap? that's so weird....

lyrics that i once heard (i might have the word order slightly wrong; the car was speeding by): "give me back my gun and i'll give you back your life."

an excessive amount of mainstream gangsta rap contains way too much profanity for my tastes.