Top 30 Gangsta Quotes

He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of ‘Restaurant Man’ – the original gangsta ‘Restaurant Man,’ my father – was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

I’m not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It’s fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.

There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.

I love gospel music, I love gangsta music.

There’s some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren’t worthy of it – their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Gangsta to us didn’t have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It’s just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you’re not going to let nothing stop you.

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It’s reality rap. It’s about what’s really going on.

I’ve been called everything. Gangsta rap. I’ve been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that’s on them.

‘Gangsta rap’ is a derogatory label.

People say I contradict myself because I come gangsta and teach at the same time. I don’t want to be too much on either side, but I do want to speak to all audiences.

I’m just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It’s too materialistic. You know, I’m the kind of guy … I can’t do that. If you track my movement, you’ll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn’t mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

I don’t consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I’m probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I’ve been through that life.

I don’t stick up for Al Sharpton often because I consider him an agitator, but Sharpton’s views on ‘gangsta’ rap have been consistent and clear.

I was like, ‘I can’t do grime. That’s for kids.’ – I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

Rick Ross is bigger to me than Dizzee Rascal. My music is more gangsta rap than anything English.

I’m a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the ‘spiritual gangster’ line, I had to have it.

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music – I’m not going to lie.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would’ve created gangsta rap because it’s such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

I got a movie I’m working on. ‘A Gangsta’s Pain’ was actually supposed to be the soundtrack to the movie, but it got a little delayed, so the movie is going to come out after the fact.

For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I’m a gangsta rap suburban father!

Gangsta to me is the Black Panther Party.

I’m not a gangsta.

I don’t think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that’s what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It’s called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they’ve been through, what they’ve been able to familiarize themselves with.

I’m usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls – he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did it in a really artistic way.

I don’t call my music ‘gangsta rap.’ I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain’t nothing that I’m making up; I think that’s why people listen to it.

When you are culture, you’re forever young, like Snoop. When you’re on that level, it’s just contributing to the gangsta.