gangbanger

In the book, Basheer describes the gangbanger mentality as a battle to find dignity and a sense of purpose while living under socioeconomic circumstances that often deprive you of healthier ways to experience those things.

Another Post piece focused on “a 12-year-old pintsized gangbanger accused of being the ringleader of a Central Park robbery crew” who lived at the Roosevelt with his family.

And in a masterstroke of lucky timing, Lefty Gunplay dropped his new album, “Most Valuable Gangbanger,” the same day the “GNX” landed.

You didn’t have to be a gangbanger to get that kind of treatment.

“On the gangbanger side, you wanna be the man. You wanna be known. You want people to fear you,” Philpott said.