Letter to the Editor: Ms. Ennis

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Dear editor: My name is Mildred Ennis, and just the other day I caught my eldest son Eugene listening to the corrupting influences of rap mu...

Letter to the Editor: Mr. Wayne

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Ayo man. I be a'readin' this magazine and the prose be attractifing da ladies. Prose before hoes, nawwhatImean? I don't mean to ...

Letter to the Editor: Rusty's Mom

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    On a summer eve last week, I caught my eldest son, Rusty, listening to this god foresaken jungle music. The jungle boogy's pulses di...

'Dising', you better believe it

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Rap is a form of communication, like other forms of communication, it benefits greatly from rhetorical appeals. Rhetorical appeals make the ...

Ballad of a Fallen Soulja: The 2Pac Conspiracy

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September 7th, 1996. It was the night of a Tyson fight in Las Vegas. The streets were busy with traffic, and the night life was just begin...

Eminem: Relapse

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Eminem finally ended his musical break on May 19 th with the release of his new album Relapse.   The highly anticipated project has been...

Vernacular: How to speak like a gangster

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The thug vernacular is the language of the streets. It’s the lifeblood, if you will, of the gansta’ lifestyle. The way we express ourselv...

Guide to being a Thug

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Read on as Arpit Panda, senior correspondent for the Thug Fancy, goes through a step by step process of how to transform into a gangster. An...

May Puzzles

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You've just pulled the break-in of the year but unfortunately the paranoid neighbor down the road called in the cops.  After disposing o...