Although Daz's album So So Gangsta was released later in 2006, "Daz Thang" was not included on the release, making the single even more highly sought-after.
As a forerunner of the most violent type of "gangsta" rap, Christopher Wallace, who first became known as Biggie Smalls, then as Notorious B.I.G., became a symbol of the genre.
As a producer, he contributed to gangsta rap classics like Dr. Dre's The Chronic and Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle.
Bad Hair Day is perhaps best known for Weird Al's version of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", "Amish Paradise".
Can James Hewitt take on gangsta rapper Harvey in a high dive?
David Blunkett has made comments linking " appalling " gangsta rap lyrics with gun crime.
Dogg soon became the poster child for gangsta rap, with critics holding up his lyrics as evidence of the violent, misogynistic nature of the industry.
Featuring another rap legend, Pete Rock, The World Is Yours is smart, challenging, and like 2Pac, an example of mixing the gritty realism of gangsta rap with lyrics that wouldn't be out of place in a literary textbook.
He adopted the name Kid Gangsta at age six, and by seven, he was performing around the country.
N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton album is one of rap's quintessential albums, marking the beginning the West Coast sound and gangsta rap.
Not long after the release of this song, gangsta rap overtook mainstream hip hop while political hip hop largely moved underground.
Play a good guy or a bad guy, a gangsta or a copper, in modern England.
Rockstar has released another addition to the GTA series and this time you're taking it to the mean gangsta streets in places that resemble L.A., Las Vegas, and San Francisco.
The 11 O'Clock Show Channel 4 Sacha Baron Cohen's creation Ali G is a typical wannabe gangsta, familiar to urban Britain.
They have signed rap star Eminem who will signal the exact moment for mourning to commence with a gangsta rendition of The star-spangled banner.
They specialize in layouts pertaining to cute, sexy, gangsta and more.
Though the album was controversial at the time of its release, it is now considered a rap classic and another landmark moment in the birth of the gangsta rap movement which would so influence hip hop in the 1990s and beyond.
Tracy - Tracy describes herself as "gangsta at heart," and as such, she is never one to let conflict slide.