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gangsta

rap style generally credited to West Philly hip hop artist Schoolly D, but as for the word itself, his "Gangster Boogie" (1984) used the conventional spelling; NWA was spelling it gangsta by 1988.

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Definitions of gangsta from WordNet

gangsta (n.)
(Black English) a member of a youth gang;
From wordnet.princeton.edu