![]() ![]() If Babyface, Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown, or Prince had been singing the lyrics of N.W.A., Ice Cube, the Geto Boys, or Ice-T, the results might have sounded something like Gangsta Lean. (whose name stands for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) was coming from more of a new jack R&B perspective. ![]() and classic soul groups like the O'Jays, the Chi-Lites, and the Dramatics, the equally obscure D.R.S. But on two rare occasions, West Coast groups brought gangsta rap to R&B: first was D.R.S. Kelly, and Lauryn Hill to Erykah Badu, Janet Jackson, and Aaron Hall - steered clear of gangsta rap's violent, bloody imagery. ![]() Hip-hop-minded R&B artists - who ranged from Mary J. In the 1990s, countless R&B acts incorporated hip-hop, but not many of them incorporated outright gangsta rap. ![]()
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