Gangsta city now , Jay Bee? – The Genre

The musical genre selected for this poem is Hardcore Gangsta Rap. We have a major problem because I have never heard of this kind of music before. Straight away I wikipedia what it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta_rap

It is a subgenre of hip hop music.

Okay, but what is hip hop music?

Wikipedia again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music

Not that I have never heard of hip hop or rap but I don’t really listen to them.

So it is going to be quite an interesting project. First thing first, I need to listen to the music so I went to www.youtube.com :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scILa5iPBcg Original Gangster by Ice-T

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ia1IuX0jDY – Writing the classic “Saturday Night”, an interview on how Schoolly D write rap music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaOul8gVVc Gangsta Gangsta by NWA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_N7Yaz2pE New York New York by The Last Poets

All the sudden, rap or hip hop (I’m not sure which is which) is a lot more serious music than I thought. So I decided to do more researches and experiments and created another blog for the purpose:

http://miditowaves.blogspot.com/

Interesting enough to know that with some grey hair in my nose, I’ll be related to this kind of music … hehehe.