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[–]srprisemeifucan 5 points6 points ago

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Eminem looks like Jodie Foster.

[–]Cenobite 1 point2 points ago

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Cannot unsee!

[–]Calitude 24 points25 points ago

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You can always tell who's really "gangsta" or "O.G." by how these pictures. So here's my breakdown:

Kid Cudi had a nice, albeit stock, background which means the school hired a professional. So I'm guessing KC went to a middle-class school in the burbs probably.

Eminem, Usher, and Kanye all had blank backgrounds and are wearing standard 'picture day' attire so they were at less than middle class schools. Usher looks super happy though so I'm guessing he really wanted to pose for his mommy. momma's boy.

TI wears a fucking suit and tie for this... really? No gagsta wears a fucking suit and tie in primary school. Bitch obviously has two wealthy parents in the nice part of town.

Now here's two REAL gangstas: 50 and Ne-Yo. They get photographed in front of steel cage. Fuck, even 50 had to wear his grandfather's used Mr Roger's shirt and Ne-Yo just wore his cleanest t-shirt he could find.

Lil' Wayne's school couldn't even afford one of them fancy shmancy new-fangled color photographical thingamajigs. If 50 was gangsta, Wayne was just dirt poor.


tl;dr - I chose my rap artists based on their 'gangsta' childhood photos.

[–]jmed 5 points6 points ago

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Did you say T.I. is not gangsta? Wearing a nice fucking suit when you're 8 is just badass. From his wikipedia

T.I. was born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. on September 25, 1980, in Riverdale, Georgia, the son of the late Clifford "Buddy" Harris Sr. and Violeta Morgan. He was raised by his grandparents in Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia. His father lived in New York and he would often go up there to visit him. His father suffered from Alzheimer's and later died from the disease. T.I. began rapping at age nine. He attended Douglass High School, but later dropped out. As a teenager, he was a drug dealer. He was once known as Rubber Band Man, a reference to the custom of wearing rubber bands around the wrist to denote wealth in terms of drugs or money. By age 14, he had been arrested several times.

Nigga is gansta as fuck.

[–]EarthRester[!] -2 points-1 points ago

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Wikipedia? Damn, you know it's true then!

[–]kayelar 3 points4 points ago

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Cudi's also 10+ years younger than the rest.. I'm guessing school photography backgrounds have improved at least a little in that time. But cages? Really? Pretty gangsta.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I like this post.

[–]kowalski71 1 point2 points ago

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Not knowing much about rap culture, I guess being 'gangster' is remembering how poor you used to be.

[–]Wibbles 1 point2 points ago

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Kanye all had blank backgrounds and are wearing standard 'picture day' attire so they were at less than middle class schools.

Kanye West is so middle class he shits minivans. I can't take the man seriously when he raps about the "ghetto university" and the like. Shit man, the only ghetto you've seen is Grouches corner on Sesame St.

[–]pipian 1 point2 points ago

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None of those artists are gangsta. Lil' Wayne is a little bitch.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Eminem is relatively gangster. Same with Cudi.

[–]pipian 2 points3 points ago

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Sure, compared with Kanye. Kool G, Big L, Scarface, those are real gangstas.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Well yeah. But Eminem has the perfect balance of talent and legitimacy.

[–]arteezy 0 points1 point ago

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have you considered the fact that these pictures weren't taken at the same time, so some might look more "gangsta" because they're older

[–]Nostradomass 3 points4 points ago

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one of these doesn't fit...

[–]sorryimnotsorry 8 points9 points ago

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Usher?

[–]chamakits 1 point2 points ago

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I always thought that 50 cent's face was the way it was because of having been shot.....I was wrong.

[–]erinlh 1 point2 points ago

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Eminem, the confused little lesbian years.

[–]Sotordamotor 1 point2 points ago

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ha, usher still looks like a player.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I remember seeing this post a day after these pictures were taken.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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World record holder of pedophilia?

[–]FreshPrinceOfDrkness 0 points1 point ago

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lil' wayne looks constipated, and i see ti still hasn't fixed his teeth

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Eminem is the combo breaker here

[–]Skittle_ 0 points1 point ago

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Lil Wayne - To ghetto for color.

[–]detritus87 0 points1 point ago

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All I can think of is Elton John now... "Hold me close young tiny Gangsters..."

[–]CupOfFiction 0 points1 point ago

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To be honest. Only T.I, 50 (both former drug dealers) and Lil Wayne are rapping about "gangsta" stuff. Ne-Yo and Usher are RnB singers singing about women. Kid Cudi and Kanye are so called backpack/concious rappers rapping about life in general never claiming they were gangsters. And Eminem just grew up really poor in a bad neighbourhood.

[–]animonk 0 points1 point ago

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gangsters you say?

[–]jutct -1 points0 points ago

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I don't know all that much about these guys, but I think the only hardcore gangster in there is 50 cent. That guy is real life bad ass.