Ok, so you gangsta huh? Word?

Well, i doubt it.

Oh and before you get it all twisted im talking more on the lines of New York ish since thats where im at but

First of all, just because your black, doesnt mean your gangster, and just because your white and listen to 50 cent, doesnt mean it either sorry.

The first actual "Gangsters" as we to this day know them, were the Italians, but before than, im sure we all saw Gangs Of New York, some fact, some fiction. But The Dead Rabbits were a gang in New York City in the 1850s originally part of the Roache Guards. The gang achieved great renown for their organization and prowess as thieves and thugs. The fighting uniform of the Roache Guards was a blue stripe on their pantaloons, while the Dead Rabbits adopted a red stripe. In riots their emblem was a dead rabbit impaled on a spike. The Rabbits and the Guards swore undying enmity and constantly fought each other at the Five Points, but in the rows with the water-front and Bowery Boys they made common cause against the enemy, as did other Five Points gangs including the Shirt Tails and Chichesters. This is partially where this fucking "epidemic" arised from.

Me? Im no gangster, i have to much heart for that, i cant kill someone, unless its self defense, i dont sell drugs because im smarter than that, i can make more workin hard for 10 years than i can make stuck in a fuckin cell for 10 years.

But to recent day, anyone who thinks they can rap, spits about guns and drugs thinks that they are, your not, clothes doesnt define it, the way you talk, none of that shit, just be humble.

Obviously going to be some haters but thats life, i can take critism and hate better than they can take me laughin in their face because i dont give a fuck

Lifes to short for small shit, talk is cheap, yeah i could give a mean grill to everyone i meet and be an asshole like half the population of the world but shit lifes hard enough im just tryna get by'

but, DONT FRONT

-My $0.02

Oh n excuse the ADHD

But most importantly, DO YOU, if you dont smoke weed dont be talkin like you do in ya raps, and if you dont bust guns, than fine, dont rap about it, sometimes i catch myself doin it to, ill think of real sick line but it doesnt have its part with me so i dont use it, thats bein fake, so word ima stop addin shit lol

Word, I feel you.
No one should actually "try" to be gangsta.
For some, just the way they respond to things and handle situations make them "gangsta" ya dig?
Some people dont try to be gangsta, but are very gangsta and they know it. They acknowledge it by always statin "Im a G" haha
People often say the real G's are dead or in Jail. Thats only partially true. There are alot of real G's out here on the streets. They just havent been killed or been caught by the hook yet. Alot of them will, BUT some of them wont.
Hopefully Im one of the people that wont be killed or locked up. BANG!

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^- Yeah shits true but some just say it like they are trying to speak it into being or somethin, i see through all that shit, im not saying a real g cant come to rapverse but the majority that say they are aint, to be fair ill even say half instead of the majority but we all know thats pushin it.. ya kno

You was right @ majority.
Alot of the kids that be talkin tough dont even live 100 miles of an urban area.
Im not sayin living in an urban area automatically makes you tough, but kids that were born and raised in an urban environment are just built differently than kids raised in a suburban area.

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BUT, non-urban does not = suburban...

small, run-down southern towns are where most of the dopest, rawest shit is coming from right now, at least out of the south... it would be a joke if you called my town "suburban" in the least bit. its just a different kind of not rich. its country.

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suburban gangsters yo...

^^ the class of almost all "gangsters" now a days... I feel you on it.. because really... Ive dont it before, ive made almost a whole cd, started recording it, and completely scrapped it because I was like hold up... I dont touch guns, I have no need. Drugs are like 50 / 50 but Im not a massive coke dealer or anything... I just havent bothered writing anything else yet, im just letting those thoughts n stuff die outta my system so I can actually write..

Yeah man, detox that shit lol, na i hear you though its the growth of being an artist and lettin yourself expand from the 'protocol' ya kno?

^- Yeah i hear that, its a broke thing, im white, from New York, not the city though, i live in a town with a bunch of mixed people, im an hour from the city so we have a good mixture of people that take the train up from there for work n shit, its a small town, broke, i live in this placed called "High meadows" on top of a mountain this lil ghetto as trailor park, and yeah it is ghetto, not an old folks place, mainly poor people, i dont care, i rep my shit still im proud no shame cuz shit, cuz im going be out this bitch soon but regardless, its a broke thing, when you broke life aint easy, you fight for shit, to get shit or to defend your own shit, thats what it boils down to, either someone fuckin with you for your gear, your house whatever, all that talk, and the fights from it make you harder is time goes, so yeah im tough, but its not like im like yeah son ima debo your shit, im chill, i protect my shit but dont start shit, thats real

Dont get it twisted though im not that poor, lol, we got two nice cars in the driveway and the house is pretty decent, not all nasty n shit but times is tough, my dads just a carpenter and my moms a nurse, you know 100k house income on some middle class shit, id love to be some rich white boy from the burbs got i got dealt a diff hand, n that 100k is rounded up bout 20k

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try that out haha just watch the video if you can find it on there.. it just seems so scripted and gay....

but i know wat ur sayin bout ur house n stuff.... I just bought myself my own car.. well Ford Escape... but really.. i worked my ass off for it.. and its a sweetass ride... but i appreciate it more because my work paid for it..

If you're raised around an area with a high crime rate and drug dealers and killers, it dont matter if you have a weak mind or not. You will have all of that embedded into you. Its not changing to become them, its becoming them, period. Not literally becoming them, but just knowing it in your mind. Some people embrace that lifestyle, some people dont. The ones that embrace usually becomes the people commitin the crimes and dealin the drugs. The people that dont embrace it are usually the ones that make it out the hood. But even still, just because you make it out the hood and try to lead a good life you will always have that hoddness in you, ya dig?

and the same thing goes vice versa.
If you're raised in the suburbs around grannies plantin flowers and ice cream men smiling and police officers actually helping you and not beatin your ass. And talkin your problems out then you move to the hood, that wont make you hood, because you still have that suburban mentality. YOU FEEL ME?! DO SOMEBODY FEEL ME!?

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^^^Absolutely incorrect, I am born an raised in the hood an been to hoods all up an down the east coast. An I know tons of dudes born & raised in the hood such as myself an u would never know it unless u asked them. The hood is just a neighborhood, its not who u are. Which brings me to aurora's gangster theme.

Nowadays we got "Thug by Location" niggas, these are the dudes that grew up in the hood but stayed in the house an watched shit pop off from the window but when they leave the hood they quick to tell outsiders "yo, I'm as thug as they come I'm from such & such hood, yall kno how we do." The truth is in most ghettos the large majority are not gangstas/thugs....u got the 20 or 30 so niggas on the corner...then the hundred or so of everyone else. Which be the elderly, middle-aged city workers, nurses, janitors, teachers, school officials, etc. But niggas like to lie an say the hood is a 24/7 war zone..there are dead bodies on the street everyday an every cop is corrupt...dont get me wrong its def fucked up an katz dying young an corrupt cops do exist there but its highly overblown. It really comes down to the individual an how their parents raise them which will determine if the hood will define them or not. an thats real talk....1

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Rofl lol i like how you say thug by location, thats why i said everyone in a gang isnt gangster, it all depends on the person and their values for themselves, which gets set in their ways from what they are around if they were around their parents and they were taught well they fine but if you cant talk to your parents like that you look to your friends and whats around you and thats how you get caught up, im not a gangster at all, and im not tough cuz im from New York but i got that Ny mentality and dudes from NY know what im talkin about

well i happen to rap...

and never have i said i was a gangsta...

and i never will

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