And the rapper bristled when his song was lumped in with the so-called "gangster rap" scene. "I'm trying to get rid of that jacket that's been put on my back - that I'm a gangsta rapper," he said ...

This was a time when the notorious rivalry between rappers from the US East Coast led to the death of 2-PAC and Notorious B.I.G. “Gangsta rap is a form of artistic expression when done by ...

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship ... and often empowering mode of expression for a ...

Critics raved about how he had “elevated gangsta rap", and declared K.Dot as “(his) generation’s most potent artistic voice".