Gangsta rap

Here's the crazy story is I had a dad leave our club, um, and i- if he sees it, uh, he's gonna know he's such a blessing to me, but his son ended up wrestling for Ohio State, but he came to me and he was like, I had a...

No lie, I had a day in our club that was called Gangster Rap Tuesday, and I would put on the most gangster rap, and I would tell kids that the world's gonna try to eat you up, and this is what the world's gonna be like.

And that's kinda what my philosophy was, i- is that like, don't, like I said, don't be like me.

I'm the guy, I'm only here to co- I used to tell people, "I'm not a role model.

You want a role model for your kid, you be it.

I'm not gonna be it.

I'm not responsible enough, but I'm a great wrestling coach." So we had Gangster Rap Tuesday every Tuesday, and he would just say, "Hey, I..." You know, he said, "Jeff, I can't do this with my kid around this kind of music." And I said, "What are you gonna do? You gonna protect him from the world?" And what he really taught me was is that, no, you can't protect your kids from the world, but you can definitely tell your kids, "I stood up for what was right, and I didn't put you in this environment." And when I got sober this last time, he was the first person I called and I said, "I'm so sorry.

I should've listened to you.

Which deserves to be taken down for being a fake CIA front to begin with.

Yeah, because like Most gangster rap does.

Jay-Z's totally just going to slide through all of this.

He's in charge of the Super Bowl halftime show.

want.

It's designed that way.

And all of this goes back to the gangster rap, dude.

And it sucks because I love music and I want to separate the ability of musicians and the artistic integrity of musicians and music and what it says to people from the CIA.

On this episode, we talked about if 50 Cent was rapping about toughness or deep-seated fear in Get Rich or Die Trying.

Also, if gangsta rap is just conservatism disguised as street music.

If the death of monoculture completely destroyed hip-hop's shared conversation.

And more.

Um, [humming] uh, I forgot the album.

I missed Gangsta and the Gentleman 2.

See, that's, that's, that is hard.

All right.

really loud, but not really, you know.

Dude, Sammy fucking loves gangster rap.

Oh, really? That's funny.

Loves it.

If I was to walk out there and go straight out of Compton and my wife would just bust it, she could probably do the whole song.

Crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube from a band called With Attitude.

So, yeah, she fucking loves gangster rap.

And we'll be in the car and on her playlist, it'll be a fucking Disney song.

You think this is going to turn over in one night, one awareness movement? No.

Gangsta rap.

Gangsta rap.

I love gangsta rap.

I mean, I grew up in a time of gangsta rap.

I loved it.

I indulged in it.

And I always like blush when I tell the story, but it was like 1996.

It's like when like Tupac and Biggie and Gangsta Rap were taken off.

So like I...

I don't know I was a people pleaser and I always like tried to fit in so I think like hanging around some of the other knuckleheads in the neighborhood I turned into a knucklehead and then we like started partying and right like sneaking up and taking sips of alcohol out of the parents cabinet right did you how'd you do in school I was a great student I loved I liked school because I played a lot of sports like whatever season was in season, I was playing that sport, baseball, football, basketball.

They're taking shots at the culture around them, pop rap.

Gangsta Rap, The Machine That Wanted Flowers.

You brought up how punk rock everything was.

The album's 67 minutes long, bro.

In the book, you all, like Confucius said, you speak about the origins of conscious hip-hop.

But with that, you speak about gangster rap.

I really kind of hate that title.

Over the years, I kind of learned it's just like,

it's just gangster rap.

I could see that,

yeah.

It's kind of been misconstrued, yeah.