Noun
gangsta rap (countable and uncountable, plural gangsta raps)
(music) A subgenre of hip-hop music associated with urban street gangs and characterized by a focus on lyrics about crime, urban life, and materialistic excess.
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. Fergie
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. Jackson Katz
Gangsta rap is closely related to other indigenous gang and crime-oriented forms of music, such as the narcocorrido genre of northern Mexico. Source: Internet