Gangsta, Gangster, Gangbanger
A member of a gang who usually deals crack cocaine and marijuana to make endsmeat and support himself or his family. Usually risks his life by taking part in gang shootings over territory, merchandise, or beef.
Most gangstas are caught up in the life around them, growing up poor in the projects or areas like Compton, Los Angeles, and Long Beach. Those who decide they aren't going to get anywhere through education and school become gangstas and partake in the forementioned lifestyle. Some think they don't have a choice and become gan
In hip hop culture the gangsta is looked up to because he is the one guy you see making money, with brand new clothes, clean white nikes, and a brand new fitted hat despite not finishing school and living in a poor environment. Gangstas are respected because they do what they do to keep themselves alive and provide food for their family, especially when most are raised by poor single mothers with little brothers and sisters. Although glorified by hip hop culture the gangsta is usually responsible for putting crack in the hood and killing other gangstas, which becomes an issue with rappers like Kanye West.
There are also some hip hop figures who dislike the love for gangsta culture because, although they are doing what they do to survive, they are the cause of black on black crime, crack addiction within neighborhoods, and act as negative role models for young males who watch them being glorified in music videos by rappers who are former or fake gangstas. The thing they don't understand is that those rappers are rich and do not live in the hood anymore so they do not see the negative effects of this lifestyle and say what they say because people buy into it.
A member of a gang who usually deals crack cocaine and marijuana to make endsmeat and support himself or his family. Usually risks his life by taking part in gang shootings over territory, merchandise, or beef.
Most gangstas are caught up in the life around them, growing up poor in the projects or areas like Compton, Los Angeles, and Long Beach. Those who decide they aren't going to get anywhere through education and school become gangstas and partake in the forementioned lifestyle. Some think they don't have a choice and become gan
In hip hop culture the gangsta is looked up to because he is the one guy you see making money, with brand new clothes, clean white nikes, and a brand new fitted hat despite not finishing school and living in a poor environment. Gangstas are respected because they do what they do to keep themselves alive and provide food for their family, especially when most are raised by poor single mothers with little brothers and sisters. Although glorified by hip hop culture the gangsta is usually responsible for putting crack in the hood and killing other gangstas, which becomes an issue with rappers like Kanye West.
There are also some hip hop figures who dislike the love for gangsta culture because, although they are doing what they do to survive, they are the cause of black on black crime, crack addiction within neighborhoods, and act as negative role models for young males who watch them being glorified in music videos by rappers who are former or fake gangstas. The thing they don't understand is that those rappers are rich and do not live in the hood anymore so they do not see the negative effects of this lifestyle and say what they say because people buy into it.
Examples of gangstas and gangs are the Rollin 20 Crips, the Queen Street Piru, and the Eighteens of 18th Street.
by hip hop lives June 23, 2007
by Nikthenyetminder February 13, 2005
by i am a coolio kid named bob March 12, 2006
a basic faggot who thinks he's hard, goes round beating up people because its 'cool'. Deserves 2 be in jail or have a bullet through his head
oh and little scrotes whose fashion sense doesn't stretch past nike, they should also be shot
oh and little scrotes whose fashion sense doesn't stretch past nike, they should also be shot
by jim123456 June 11, 2006
1. A gang of people who do criminal acts
2. Rich kids who think real gangsta are cool and try to pretend they are and try to outcast other people
2. Rich kids who think real gangsta are cool and try to pretend they are and try to outcast other people
1. Man those gangsta are always robbing shops around the hood.
2. Look at my Ipod man, it's so gangsta!
2. Look at my Ipod man, it's so gangsta!
by SOB07 April 13, 2007
1. the prisoner claimed to be a gansta.
2. I want to be a gangsta when i grow up.
3. that is a gangsta so beware.
2. I want to be a gangsta when i grow up.
3. that is a gangsta so beware.
by poison apple January 22, 2009
by Holla Backkkkkk December 26, 2008