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After reflecting on the readings, listening and viewings from Week 7, discuss the following points:
- What stood out to you from this week's materials?
- What made 'gangsta’ rap so popular within mainstream culture?
- How did this week's examples of 'gangsta' rap connect to the Rodney King video, trial and response to the verdict?
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The most outstanding content of this week’s materials is the nature of racial tensions in
the United States that influenced the development of gangsta rap music. They illustrated and
emphasized the fundamental issues that influenced the genre to become the medium for the
expression of the pains and sufferings that ethnic minorities had contend with in their respective
communities. Specifically, the media presentation on the Rodney King beating, trial, verdict, and
subsequent riots ...