GANGSTA LEAN 5/22/2001 DVD-7 Better Than Revenge

DVD-7              Better Than Revenge

UK (01/22/1977)

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She manages to mate the punk ethic and modern pop/rock production values with a rawness and immediacy that goes far beyond Lavigne's pop-punk amalgam

Fred Frith (bass)

GANGSTA LEAN 5/22/2001 DVD-7 Better Than RevengeD. R. S.: Jail Bait, Deuce Deuce, Endo, The Blunted, Pic (rap vocals). In the 1990s, countless R&B acts incorporated hip hop, but not many of them incorporated outright gangsta rap. Hip hop minded R&B artists who ranged from Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, and Lauryn Hill to Erykah Badu, Janet Jackson, and Aaron Hall steered clear of gangsta rap's violent, bloody imagery. But on two rare occasions, West Coast groups brought gangsta rap to R&B: first was D.