We're cool but this^^^^is one of the most ignorant things I have read in awhile.....I believe in the motto--->"if u don't know anything about the subject, don't speak on it"......your telling me that u have to be poor to be a gangsta?.....lmao...one of the worse neighborhoods in america known as "south central".....is a prodominately middle class neighborhood<--thats a proven statistic....rap has commercialize the term gangsta...as meaning your cool or hard.....gangsta...is jus what it means....a member of a gang.....there are plenty of non-violent gangsters...as well as the popularized hood nigga gangstas.....now what most kids online try to portray is...being a thug....a thug is someone dat makes a living off commiting criminal acts<---it doesn't strictly mean drug dealer...but by street terms thug is just a strait up gutta cat<---for those dat don't know...it means he basically has no fear of consequences, now would real life thugs be on rap boards?.....its possible, an does occur but its not comman...I don't define what I am...I am me..an I do what I must do.....but every black person you see on T.V. via music video or news broadcast...dat u think is thug is not necessarily a poor ignorant nobody dat could never post on a cpu......yes a thug can type, yes a thug is not necessarily stupid, for u kids out there a thug cannot be defined an in rap most niggas dat are supposed to be thugs are fake or exaggerating. be yaself an forget the notion that owning a gat makes u a true rapper.........1

Gangsta is not a style. It's a life.
Being Gangsta is a style, in wish to portray,(dress act an talk) like a real Gangsta.

Thats it. The only gangsta's are the one's that don't have a choice.
Or don't think they have a choice.

Bottem line is. If your concerned about bein a gangsta, your not.
Same with anything....your just tryin to be looked at in a way you wish you were.

Because if infact you were, you would know it. And not need the approval of everyone else.

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Basicly it's a image that's hot today. Bein gangsta's a fad.
It's not supposed to be. It's a lifestyle.....
And if you don't have it.....You don't.
Move on.....an be happy ya mommy wasn't a crack whore.

^^^^Now you are absoultely right here...I am surprised to see u have a valid point.....but to assume dat a gangsta has to be poor, an could never own a computer is assanine......but your right anyone dat claims gangsta or thug ain't one......braggers are just talkers.....now I hope your statement wasn't directly at me cuz by no means am I claiming thug but realize dat yes....a hood kid can own a cpu....an post music online<----dats all I'm saying.

P.S. every black kid dat lives in so-called low income areas is not hood just cuz he lives in it...being from a area don't make you hard....your personality, lifestyle, an actions....is what makes u thug.

In my mind.....

I just don't see why a gangsta, a person whose life has brought his job to work in the streets, and take part in illegal activities to put food on a table,....would buy a computer and post on a rapverse board. I mean yes, it's possible....I guess you could sell rock or rob people for monthly internet bills.

But I just can't see a gangsta's priorities set in that way. Just doesn't make sense to me. I think a gangsta is living day by day to survive an feed his family....not waste freetime on the net, talkin bout bein gangsta.....

I never was tryin to be ignorant. But seriously....It jus doesn't make sense.

Well its cool I know u wasn't trying to sound ignorant but u made an assumption about a world u know nothing of...so it came across dat way....now for it to make since u have to stop thinking like an a american for a second....in order to do that you have to stop generalizing a group of people...cuz there is no one anything.....every thug's life couldn't possibly be the same....just cuz u on the corner doesn't mean your life begins an ends wit da corner....now I doubt catz is on the corner just to pay his internet bill...lmfao but he can have the internet...cuz for one if he flipping his shit right he making more than enuff to pay his net bill, daily bills an still have money left over....an on top of dat majority of the catz on the corner is young...an in fact alot still live at home wit moms.....so in alot of cases moms pays the house bills an he just on the corner for miscellaneous stuff like nice clothes, cars, cells, or w/e his heart desires....there are people in the street from all walks of life...shit there are kids dat travel from the suburbs to the hood to sell shit just to make every cash den go back to their comfy suburban home....see the street don't discriminate....only colors the streets see is green & red....so yes it possible for a hood cat to be among us RV folk

w00t

Battle of the long ass paragraphs i'm not gunna read :)