Photo: Puff Daddy, Tupac Shakur, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre.
      stereotype
      all african american men are gangsters  
      Is Puff Daddy getting rich pretending to be a gangster?  
         
      Many musicians pretend to be gangsters, even Madonna. Gangsters were once "bad guys." Music videos present gangsters as cool. Do rap stars pretend to be gangsters to show that they haven't lost their roots? What does being a gangster have to do with being African American?