Citations:gangstafied

English citations of gangstafied

Adjective: "(slang) having the characteristics of a member of an urban gang and/or of gangsta rap"

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• 1999, dream hampton, "Eternal Gangsta", Vibe, October 1999, page 120:

  After first Cube and then Dre defected from N.W.A, Eazy's brand of gangstafied hip hop lost much of its cinematic flair, political undertones, and funky edge, and "Eazy Muthafuckin' E" began bordering on the cartoonish.

• 2000, Margeaux Watson, "Welcome To The Home-Video Zone", Vibe, May 2000, page 65:

  Plot: In the spirit of I'm Bout It, Big Ballers is a gangstafied tale about dealing dope in the dirty South.

• 2002, Demitri Ehrlich, album review, Vibe, January 2002, page 123:

  Harlem's G. Dep is the rare MC with the skills to do the legendary track justice, asserting his place in Rakim's lyrical lineage with a taut, gangstafied remake.

• 2002, Bönz Malone, "Better With Age", Vibe, October 2002, page 155:

  Although he dropped his middle name (Doggy), he still has his G'd-out style, and the music consistently delivers what Snoop Dogg fans have always craved: gangstafied lyrics from the most laid-back playa in the game.

• 2002, Oneworld, Volume 7, page 36:

  And if you were around for the initial rise of pop G-ness, then you'll be very familiar with Roscoe's gangstafied interpretation of who he is ("Killers" and "I Call Shotz") and what he's about ("Dippin' in tha 4" and "Everyday").

• 2003, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Hip-hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop, Backbeat Books (2003), →ISBN, page 269:

  Some of these cuts are positively smoove, which stands in direct contrast to the gangstafied lyrics, but that's always been a part of the Bone trademark.

• 2006, Dipannita Basu & Sidney J. Lemelle, The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, Pluto (2006), →ISBN, page 72:

  It's even more unsettling that even as BET and MTV videos show gangstafied ballers cavorting with skimpily clad hotties, it's much more probable that the pursuit of thug life will lead not to platinum plaques and 'hood riches, but to unsolved case files and mournful funerals.

• 2007, Jason D. Haugen, "The Geto Boys", Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, And Culture (Mickey Hess), Greenwood Press (2007), →ISBN, page 249:

  As with most gangsta rap as a genre, the Geto Boys' narratives emphasize drug dealing and other "gangstafied" images, and all of these tales require a certain level of authenticity to be taken seriously by the audience.

• 2007, XXX Mag, Issues 88-90, unknown page:

  The slipshod musical chemistry also appears on the plodding "Bounce," where the Boyz' gangstafied lyrics clash with producer Bass Heavy's simplified techno synth melody.

• 2008, Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power, Faber & Faber (2008), →ISBN, page 111:

  […] N.W.A convinced them that gangstafied rappers could be the street soldiers of hip-hop (and that their disregard for authority and mainstream acceptance was just as powerful and hip-hop authentic — if not more so — as their pro-black rhyming counterparts).