1.   Between boasts and taunts, Chino XL also mocked the music business and the shtick of gangster rap and lashed out at the police.

2.   A narcocorrido can be likened to gangster rap.

3.   Dr. Dre gained fame as the behind-the-scenes director of gangster rap.

4.   Even when the Panthers argue in this movie, they never approach the gratuitous violence and vulgarity of gangster rap.

5.   Gangster rap provides action-movie kicks, but it is also a debate about the role of violence.

6.   Guns, pro-wrestling, gangster rap saturate the pop culture.

7.   It has become clear that gangster rap and its trappings are culturally poisonous and that the companies that exploit them are bloodsuckers.

8.   The album sold more than two million copies, and its subject matter established the pattern for virtually all the gangster rap to follow.

9.   With gangster rap having exhausted nearly every imaginable murder scenario, a new breed of rappers is taking hip-hop beyond the grave.