>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