Example Sentences

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Once a polarizing gangsta rapper and now a beloved pop culture icon, Snoop Dogg has expressed interest in owning a soccer team before.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

Now he sounded like the reckless gangsta rapper his critics had long accused him of being.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2020

Finally released after a series of delays – not to mention three albums that were apparently recorded, then scrapped – Schoolboy Q’s CrasH Talk completed his transformation from gangsta rapper to golf-playing proud father.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2020

Ice-T was one of the newcomers on the scene — he took his name as an homage to Slim and created a lucrative career as a pioneering gangsta rapper.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2015

I put a picture of him as a choir-boy next to a Photoshopped shot of him as a saggy-trousered gangsta rapper - the innocent child mutating into a growling ball of rebellious fury.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2012