[gang-stuh] 
| a type of rap music whose lyrics feature violence, sexual exploits, and the like. |
| gang·sta rap (gāng'stə) n. A style of rap music associated with urban street gangs and characterized by violent, tough-talking, often misogynistic lyrics. [From African American Vernacular English gangsta, gangster, alteration of gangster.] |
gangsta rap
form of hip-hop music that became the genre's dominant style in the 1990s, a reflection and product of the often violent lifestyle of American inner cities afflicted with poverty and the dangers of drug use and drug dealing. The romanticization of the outlaw at the centre of much of gangsta rap appealed to rebellious suburbanites as well as to those who had firsthand experience of the the harsh realities of the ghetto.
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