![]() Twenty-two years later, the trend finally seems to be winding down. “Gangsta” soon became hip-hop’s default pose as far as mainstream culture was concerned, and the charts were full of men with reputed gang connections and allegedly itchy trigger fingers. When N.W.A’s Efil4zaggin hit number one on the Billboard 200 in 1991, it established gangsta rap as a viable commercial product-and in the music’s majority white and middle-class audience, it ignited a seemingly insatiable appetite for vivid lyrical portrayals of black men working in the violence-wracked crack trade. The pop charts have been a dangerous place for much of the past two decades. Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content).
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