did you  ever want to be a 'gangsta' during the mid 90's?
341743
nope, never found it appealing to be on the wrong side of the law.
41173
I actually learned a lot from DARE. But I also was taught about it in the mid 80s. But I have stayed away from drugs. And I was almosted kid napped but I remembered the training I learned from the program and I did what I was taught. I don't know how the program is set up now though, but in the 80s I think that it was a good program and taught a lot
311456
lol Ya I remember all that. I remember running home from school to hear "I Want it That Way" on the radio for the first time, and watching the "Backstreet Back" video like a million times! My sister had the special behind the scenes video for the making of Backstreets Back and As Long as You Love Me, and we waited with our friends for HOURS to get tickets to their concert (we had to go with our aunt because we weren't old enough to go to a concert downtown all by ourselves!) It was insane! I had the posters, the Cd's EVERYTHING! I was so p***ed when NSYNC came out because they were just copying Backstreet Boys, and they would NEVER be as cool as them! And like me and all my friends knew all the dance moves, and do them at school dances! Hahahaha. Yeah it was good times.
991461
...AND YOU COULD'VE CHOSE TO BE SOMEBODY other than a thug
1097359
Yes and I love you for saying so. I was born in 74 and I think about the 80's alot. I miss a lot of things to include Saturday morning cartoons much like yourself. There are so many things but too many things to list here. I think it would be cool if there were decade categories on "answers" so that we could talk about each decade specifically in detail and everyone would know where to go-I honestly just by chance came across your question. I do, however, love to watch I love the 70's and 80's on VH1 and that allows me to reminisce a bit. I just sit there with a giant smile on my face the entire time.
107661
Heck no.  The best times of my life were in the 70's and don't intend to ever leave!!!!!!!!
704335
to look like a gangstaa.
352262
mid-80's to about 1992.  Yes!  awesome years!
667942
Having grown up in the 70's - I can tell you that American culture was a bit crazy - we were dealing with the Tail-end of Viet Nam, the worst environmental pollution in history and Richard Nixon being impeached for Watergate. At the same time, we were not the most fashionable, it was a time of wide-collar polyester shirts with loud print and corduroy pants - all with tennis shoes! Still, what we lacked in sophistication we more than made up for in fun! Southern Rock was at it's apex (Lynard Skynard, 38 Special, CCR), R&B was a blast with groups like the Commadores and Earth, Wind and Fire, and Disco was beginning to emerge (the BeeGees).  Drugs were primarily psychadelic in nature: LSD, PCP, Heroin - and lots of pill poping. People were promiscuous - AIDS had not made it's official debut yet - so sex was rampant. All in all, the 70's was a crazy, wacked out decade. Still - I feel that it was a much less damaging era than what we face today!
510652
am a gangsta and i been in a relationship with myself long as i can remember.
526614
Well originally rapping over old music was a form of street showmanship. It's an integral part of hip/hop for the mc to brag about himself, because ordinarily he/she would be competing in front of people with another mc.  When gangsta rap became popular they took that same formula and started pretending that they actually have some criminal persona.  It is all for show, and really ruins a lot of otherwise good music. Current rap music is all smoothed out and over proccessed into this homogenized featureless sound product, which is why the radio all sounds the same. Go check out a real hip/hop show in your area, like an mc competition, and you might get a chance to hear some real hip hop.
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The 90's were it mate, to much hip pop hop rubbish at the moment.\nOnly dance music has had a good few years in my eyes.\nLove the 90's man, guitar music was at it's best, lost interest in lots of the music nowadays, even indie and rock stations are crap.\nAnd in the 90's we had a proper little Ska revival, crack on 90's.
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cause in those days there was no comfy pimp mobile to travel around with, no limo humvees, just a stinky old donkey which muhammad uses when he needs to stifle his raging hormones, so do you think travelling was fun in those days?
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Gangsta as in?!?!? hmm i'm not sure exactly what kind of gangsta u are looking 4.. but try.\n\nwww.freeweblayouts.net\n\nwww.mypimpspace.com \n\nthose might help!!!
740734
Too soft on repeat offenders. But by and large kids today don't get away with anything close to what I got away with when I was young. Of course everything fun wasn't illegal then, and you didn't get hauled into court for inconsequential like fighting.
94710
I think the stop snitchen shirts are pretty stupid. Everybody wants to try to be gangsta like the rappers that they idolize. I know I want to be just like some alcoholic, drug addict, womanizing idiots. Sounds like fun. Not.
692043
there was a period where i was totaly into bad boys becasue they had the money, cars, clothes, kool houses, independance and everything i didn't have as a good girl. they were ruff, demanding and took whatever they wanted and i looked up to that mostly because i didn't have the guts to be that myself. \n\ni think somewhere along the lines i grew up because bad boys don't do it for me anymore. i got a system that works for me and figured out that no bad boy was gonna stick around long enough to make anything lasting so they just have kinda moved down the ladder in the grand scheme of my life. the man i am now in love with is the best man i have ever known and as good as i think i could ever find. he loves me and that's all that matters now. it's all about the process of growing up. one has to go through many wrongs in order to find what is right.