Gangster rap

[jsmoke]

Can you give me some good GR, I like Biggie smalls don't like emandm however you spell his name, something bit less mainstream...

 

[Kosmiche]

 

[LiamC]

Wiz khalifa, Snoop dogg, Tupac, Jay-Z, Bone Thugz

Edit - just noticed 'Less mainstream'. Guess the above don't count.

 

[Chandler_90]

Wu Tang?

Individual albums too.. Ghostface Killah etc do some decent stuff.

Not sure its classed as Gangsta tho.

 

[King85]

Eminem isn't gangster rap

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

Tonnes to choose from there

 

[shankly1985]

MC REN, NWA, EazyE, Dr Dre, 2pac, Rakim, The D.O.C

Mc Ren is class

 

[arknor]

Tupac Feat. 50 Cent - Realest Killaz
hit em up (probably the most insane diss track ever)
troublesome 96
ballad of a dead soulja
2Pac feat. Eazy-E - Real Thugs

Biggie Smalls - Who Shot Ya
Biggie Smalls - Going Back To Cali

Wiz khalifa, Snoop dogg, Tupac, Jay-Z, Bone Thugz

Edit - just noticed 'Less mainstream'. Guess the above don't count.

theres loads of tupac that cant be classed as mainstream, most people only know the songs from movies

 

[FARGO]

Jedi Mind Tricks.

 

[kaka4200]

Ice cub can be considered good and not so mainstream

 

[Eurofighter]

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata.

 

[deano-5]

Try Lil' Boosie - I Know or I Miss U or Real Slow

 

[Fluke?]

N.W.A.
NATAS
Gravediggaz
Wu Tang Clan
Onyx
Naughty By Nature
Cypress Hill

Not all "gangsta rap" certainly but you should like. Not listened to most of the above for 10-15 years so no idea how it holds up now...

 

[Saint1972]

Kool G Rap.
Spice 1.
E-40.
Comptons Most Wanted.
Ice T.
Paris.(more political)

 

[McBain]

Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Biggie, NWA.

 

[Robosapien]

 

[Krisali]

 

[chipperhead]

The Geto Boys

 

[~>Dg<~]

basically google West coast

 

[Willir]

NWA
Eazy E
Biggie Smalls
Ice Cube
ICE T
Cypress Hill
Naughty By Nature

 

[Willir]

Some of Kendrick Lamar's material on 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' I would say was modern gangster rap.