In the late 1980s, gangsta rap emerged in urban America, giving voice to - and making money for - a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, Black men.
From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream music scene, generating enormous amounts of controversy and profoundly affecting popular culture.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Eithne Quinn to talk about her research into the culture and commerce of gangsta rap in her new book, Nuthin' But A "G"Thang. Quinn argues that gangsta rap both reflected and reinforced the decline in popular protest politics and the rise in individualism and entrepreneurialism that took place after the 1970s.
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