Few black artists that make it big in the music industry reflect anything other than hip-hop and gangster rap.

Yet for the moment, gangster rap still rules the charts, and other hip-hop has been bent in its direction.

Music critics have also compared narcocorrido music to gangster rap.

This is gangster rap as a complicated worldview, not just a macho stance.

The quest for outlaw authenticity didn't start with gangster rap.

In some ways, the tougher strain of jungle is Britain's answer to gangster rap.

Still, this is a far cry from gangster rap.

He tells his son that it's silly to pretend the world of gangster rap applies to him.

And in current styles from gangster rap to industrial rock, visions of death are omnipresent.

If you want music without certain lyrics, don't buy the latest gangster rap.