You obviously dont know exactly what "gangsta rap" is. Very sad when a person does not know about a certain music genre talking like he knows his shiet. Lil Jon is not gangster, so is 99% of the stuff on the radio and tv nowaday. They are mostly crunk music, southern styled hip-hop. Shitty lyrics and overpowered bass notes. "If you actually live in the hood and can relate"...wow..that's a good one. True rap fans dont relate to crunk music....hip-hop was brought up on the complexity of the lyrics and its content, back when Rakim, Slick Rick, KRS-One, Nas, BIG, Pac, Andre, Scarface, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, X-Raided...ect was doing there things...thats when hip-hop was at its best. Most people listen to rap simply because it is the most popular type of music right now, you cant argue that rap runs the whole fking music scene. But rap is not what it is used to be anymore, alot of useless talent and garbage music is floating around. But it seems the suburbs cant have enought of it. Hip-hop as a genre is going down hill fast, and I am not hating on the souther rappers...it is facts that the lyrics they bring are garbage, same goes for all the beats, which sounds the same. But there are couple of southern rapper that have incredible talent but lack the support from the large but young population that have never heard anything before the crunk era exploded.