Gangster rap has been in the news recently especially with the release of the movie “Straight Outta Compton,” about the famous rap group N.W.A. The idea is that they rap about their day to day adventures in the Californian city of Compton. However the media and the police thought that gangsta rap glorified and exaggerated the situation in the ghettos. In my mind, gangster, or ‘gangsta,’ rap has a place in society. It goes along with freedom of speech and brings awareness to one of America’s problems; poverty and gang violence. While this hardcore rap genre’s fans were people in the same situation as the rappers at first, that soon changed. The music brought the street into the bedrooms of white suburban kids. Soon white suburban kids became the majority of the fan base for more hardcore rap. This continues today. It allows people to escape into a different world that they don’t have to live, just like any good fantasy novel or action film.