Unlike what most people think a gangster is, a gangster is usually a white person in the mob. This term is also synonomyous with mobster. Gangsters usually hate the feds and in the golden days they bootlegged drugs but mainly alcohol and robbed banks. they had massive gunfights and had the nice sedans. Gangstas are the black ones in so cal popular in the early 90's. Even if you are black you must admit that white people are the best criminals.

a retarted poser who thinks they are cool cause they wear their pants 20 feet below their waste exposing their cock to the other guys they always hang around with. And think they can get respect by beating up little kids.

A person who is looked down upon for their crimes if they are African American and admired for their crimes if they are Italian

A gangster (also referred to as "mobster") is usually not what American society thinks they are. Gangsters are usually white or heavily Italian, best known as the mafia. Black gang members in the United States are usually wannabes who don't speak correctly and usually take 5 people to beat up one guy.

An extremely stupid trend. Mainly, A person who believs they are "Gangster" because they wear white or black shirts that are 10 sizes too big and pants that hang on their knees. They listen to lil' wayne and think that they are "Bad ass" because they do drugs and graffiti buildings. Though, they are unaware of the fact that the real gangsters are the ones who lived a long time ago and actually went to prison for crime and actually being in a REAL gang that shot people. They only like other wanna-be gangsters and if your not a "gangster" too then they'll call you names. They often think their better then everybody else but their actually all just wannabes.

Trend- Guys:
-Bandana; either hanging from inside the back pocket or around the forehead.
-A hat; either sideways or backwards.
-A shirt that could fit their obese grandfather.
-Huge, baggy pants that sit under their butt and they have to hold their pants when they walk to keep them from falling down.
-Shoes that are 5 sizes too big.
-A fake diamond in one of their ears

Girls:
-Shirts that they wore in kindergarden, showing off their stomach and belly ring.
-"Talk like dis, and calls all dem girls' hoes."
-Pants that are too small and leave their crack hanging out.

Someone who likes to say the N-Word A lot and also talks to underage girls!

In the 30-60's there were criminals that where part of Organised crime like Al Capone and committed crimes such as Racketeering, counterfeiting, illegal gambling, illegal drug dealing, and murder and were also know as mobsters
Today's gangsters are just people who don't how to spell the word and spell it gangsta however they still do some of the crimes up above but they are pussies and weaklings.
However people still think of gangsters in the the earlier times due to movies like the Godfather and Goodfellas.