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A direct message from Gangsta Cru (Letting y'all know I run my damn page!!!):

1, 2, 3... In the place to be. I go by the name GC!!! This is the beginning again y'all!! Sheena aka Gangsta Cru has returned so much doper. You don't know what to do with me and the game doesn't either. I'm what you call the hardcore, conscious rapper. Well don't even call me a rapper. I'm a lyricist in the truest. I write and it's just a portrait of my life or what is going on around it. Note: I am something like a journalist. I have my current event songs. (No bullshit that E! would cover... REAL SHIT!!) So it is what it is.

I'm holding it down for the Maryland area. 301 Up in the House!!! My hometown. I love it!! But check it out everyone. I'm trying to make music to make BLACK MUSIC better. I feel as though we're not doing it how we should. Now, I am not preaching for anyone to change what they're doing. I only control what I do. So as far as rap's un-holy trinity, (B's, N's, and H's) when they stop existing, I'll stop using those terms. You can't get rid of these words like you can't erase America's dark and disgusting past. But on a less political note...

MCing has always been my dream. So I have been working on my style and skills by writing up a hell of a catalogue. I wanted to drop a mixtape, but my producers went right and I went left. Steps aren't right so we need to choreograph that. But dig this, I'm still preparing to shut shit down. If you don't hear me ripping and running over other rappers THEY BANNED ME!!! I'm playing. But what they can't do is keep us down. I swear on my CD collection, I will be heard. No one will stop this movement.

What I'm doing is bigger than rap. It's for Hip Hop, but it's bigger than that too. I'm trying to start something. Get us out there. Make ripples and piss people off. On my Tupac shit just saying what I feel, so long as it's true. You know I am an 80s baby. (A real 80s baby... Damn liars trying to be us.) So the Crack era was my backdrop. No I didn't sell drugs and I don't do them, but still, my life hasn't been missed by the crippling effects. As far as my background is concerned, I do have a childhood and whatnot. I'm the middle child. Second girl, Third born. (There are 5 of us!!!) Siblings are cool when they want to be, but not always who you want to be around. Not saying I don't love them, just saying that I let them do their thing.

All things considered, I got into rapping and drawing early on. So more or less I grew up through the speakers, ya feel me? I couldn't be the center of attention so I stopped needing that attention. I started writing. That brought me here. Everything I went through as far as growing up in the places I grew up, to the stuff that affects me and actually challenges my strength as a person led to this MC. Whether I'm talking about how much nicer I am than your favorite rapper, or I'm tackling social issues, I do it all, and I do a damn good job at it. IT IS WHAT IT IS!!! I'm giving you as much as I can give you. I give you a self portrait, drawn with words. I can probably draw it out, but you don't get to listen to me draw. Diggy?

I aim to make a statement and make music that I can respect. I'm an artist and my integrity comes before a check. A moment to reflect on anybody forced to choose between plays and getting paid or anybody confused. Take a walk in my shoes and understand my thoughts and views. For some Hip Hop is similar to watching the news. We're reporters of a different kind but this is the bottom line: Instead of reading cue cards, we're speaking our minds. Peace and Love all... Gangsta Cru!!


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/20/2007
Band Website: Working on it Pimp
Band Members: Only one member, but many aliases, dig it: Gangsta Cru, Goddess Cru, Gangsta of Dark, Goddess of Light, Gangsta Cru the General, Goddess of the Poem, Hurricane Sheena, Hurricane Demon, Demon, Divine, Blue Demon, Black Boss, Bully of the Beat, 16 Savage, Sinister Sister, Pit Rott, 2Gangsta, 2Genius, Demonatrix, Baby G, G. Cru, Dot, Dot Dot Dot, 3 Dots, Gasoline Thinker, Renegade, Razorblade, Temptress, Pimpstress, Cru, Blue Cru, Royal Blue, Royal Blue Imperial, Royal Poet, Shark, Pit Bull Cru, Pit Bull Rottweiler, Blue Artiste, Pimp, Tempt, Divine Cru, Y2G, ur2gangsta, Gold Medal, 2G, Gangsta Gangsta, Rebel, Mental Shotgun, Mental 12 Gauge, all that fly stuff that I make up when I start writing. You know you love it!!! I'm out!!!
Influences:

Prince, Tupac, Ice Cube, Diddy, Wu Tang Clan (Rae what up!!), New Edition, Gerald LeVert (R.I.P.), DMX, D-Block, Gang Starr (Premo!!!), AZ, Nas, Big Pun, OutKast, Slick Rick, Dogg Pound (Daz What UP!!!!), Snoop Dogg, Lady of Rage, Latifah, Lyte, Da Brat, Missy, YoYo, Bo$$, TLC (R.I.P. Left Eye), T.I., Usher ('04-'05), Fat Joe (before he got wack), Nelly, Lyriciss (name change lol), Luther Vandross (R.I.P.), Common, DJ Jazzy Jeff, RUN DMC, UGK (R.I.P. Pimp C), 8Ball and MJG, Scarface, and mad other rappers and producers, even my black actors and actresses. Black people period. My family and friends, the haters, the lovers, who all and what all. I draw from personal experience and write for personal growth. Let's do it!!!


Sounds Like: How the East Coast should sound... What the hell do you expect? Something timeless and classic. I'm the golden era kid.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Ugh

What's wrong with you???Knowing that answer is some privliged information. Who the fuck knows. I honestly don't. It's been a minute since I did anything that mattered to blog about. Y'all missed Purpl...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:12:00 GMT

Tough Calls

I'm going to start writing again I swear Something new for me... Writer's block. I'm strugglin'. So over here it's nothing but affairs of the heart and the mind not coordinating shit with my emotions....
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:57:00 GMT

Where Have I Been?

Writer's block is a bitch... Howdy folks!! I'm checking in from lovely PG County, Maryland. (If you don't like it, forget you, I love it.) Anyway, You haven't seen me, nobody has seen me. I'm working,...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:23:00 GMT

Not Trying to Die

Feel me... It needs to be said.If I consider the choices I've made in the last 2 years, I realize they don't mean shit to me now. Things that were so fucking hard to wrap my mind around, dissolved and...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:50:00 GMT

Youre About to Feel Like an Ass

Just something I love saying...Check it world, it's been a minute, this I know. The good news is, things could be looking up for me. Am I getting a record deal? Nope. Am I going somewhere in recent da...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:53:00 GMT

I’m Not the Best Anymore?

We have a serious fucking problem.Guess not being heard tends to make mothafuckas forget who I am. I'm the shit. Word up, I can't really go into detail, all I know is, I'm coming back up the road with...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:44:00 GMT

All I Can Say Is Time to Grind

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!First off, let me say I'm not mad, I'm just not sad so by default I have to be something. I don't get happy world, not until that Ice Cube drops. And I'm copping "ProTools"....
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:22:00 GMT

Dumb Shit

Many times you're never going to anticipate it, but it will always pop up.Sup world? Yeah, I used "sup". Not a huge fan of typing slang... Don't get me wrong, I use it, but in text format it seems a l...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Writing Rhymes and Talking Shit

Some of both was done today.What's goody everybody? I say everybody/world/people when I blog for reasons unknown to the common man. Who the fuck knows why? Man, I cuss too much. Oh well, I'm incorrigi...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:39:00 GMT

And Now... The Mind of a Genius

Hidden in plain sight right? What's that about.Restlessness. Dangerous levels of it floating about. Pissing me off, but I'm back to counsel myself. Welcome back into the realm of Gangsta Cru. It has b...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:25:00 GMT