ndividuals that target gangsta rap music as an enemy of the state, the lyrics and content of the songs are often a direct reflection of the lives that these individuals actually live. To understand this one must take a look at the actually lives of the people who wrote these songs and what they have actually gone through. One of the most targeted gangsta rappers is the previously deceased, Tupac Shakur. Growing up in a single parent home with a mother who was involved in drugs and struggled just to make ends meet, it is not difficult to imagine why the lyrics he wrote focused on this type of life style. The same goes for rapper The Notorious B.I.G., who grew up in the ghetto and experienced a life of poverty that included drugs and violence. To many in the outside world this connection seems to far fetched, only because they have never experienced living life in a way that you have to hustle just to make sure you " have money to feed you

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