first two NWA records, first 4 Cube solos, Chronic, Doggystyle, Dogg Food, Cypress Hill's first 3 records, sit Eazy's first solo. tracks from Mc Eight, Spice 1 ect ect. man i even talk about how Kurupt's These Streetz iz a Mutha is sleep on...

i don't know, maybe in my mind, being from the west, i just associate gangster rap with the loose affiliations / talk of Blood and Crips and the khakis, chucks and low-lows image. i always looked at the east coast heads as on some street shit, but not gangster...

BUT after this long ass (and pointless) conversation with K_Orr, i thought of my CD collection and remembered so much of the east coast street shit was tied to the mythos of Italian mafia/gangster shit, so how is it not gangster rap?

i'll take an L