1.   And he has repeatedly jabbed Black Entertainment Television for its endless portrayals of gangsta rappers and booty-wiggling women.

2.   And Snoop Doggy Dogg, the multimillion-selling gangsta rapper, spun fantasies of male prowess with guns and women.

3.   And though it is best known for hard-edged gangsta rappers like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur, it also has mainstream performers like the crooner Tom Jones.

4.   But the gangsta rapper whose death drew denunciations of his music and his lifestyle was not the Shakur that Roth knew.

5.   Hassan, a poet, provided his own soundtrack to the quick cuts of slick gangsta rappers and ashen-faced fans.

6.   He began his career managing Philadelphia gangsta rapper Schoolly D, one of the first rap artists to cross over to a mainstream audience.

7.   He could find common ground with gangsta rappers, aside from the kind of language they use in public.

8.   He promoted himself as a gangsta rapper and street-smart entrepreneur.

9.   Interscope has such artists as Tom Jones and gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg.

10.   Ninjas, evangelical Christians and one gangsta rapper are also involved.