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Originally Posted by macallan25
I mean, Ice-T was the self proclaimed OG, and had one of the biggest influencing records of the whole genre, Original Gangster.
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...yeah...even Wikipedia can tell you that.
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Originally Posted by macallan25
I think the creation of the "gangsta rap" movement certainly had A LOT to do with the rappers themselves.
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The creation of the gangsta rap
genre (we're talking about a genre of music and not a "movement" in terms of rappers wanting to talk about certain things in their songs) isn't mostly up to the artists. The music industry and the media generally don't operate that way.
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Originally Posted by macallan25
I don't know, it just doesn't seem as deliberate to me as some may think.
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Almost everything you see and hear in the media is deliberate. That doesn't make everything a result of a "conspiracy" but it's all deliberate. "Deliberate to accomplish what" is the question.
It's like a "chicken or egg" type issue. Were record execs just responding to the artists' and fans' interests or were the artists' and fans' interests in response to the money put into the creation and marketing of a genre of music? I don't know but it's interesting.