WHAT DOES 'GANGSTA' MEAN?

Question

I read this on the Yahoo! homepage:

Synchronized swimming team goes 'gangsta'

I am so confused. Is it pronounced like, 'gong-stah'?

Answer 1

A perversion of the established title given to the early Italian and Irish mafias, used haphazardly today as a self-described social label on mostly young people, generally black, in a far-flung game of make believe. These "gangstas" being entirely incapable of coming up with original ways of finding their identity, like to adopt Italian names from famous mafia movies as well as Italian mobster clothing. (I.e. Irv Gotti, who should have been killed for the affront to the Gotti family of the 90's, and the claim of 99% of moolies, or blacks, that The Godfather is their favorite movie (if not Scarface)). This is when, in fact, the mafia and its gangsters were built around organized crime of racketeering, protection, and highly intricate systems of providing what the people want while benefiting the immediate community, as well as adhering to codes of honor established in medieval Italy. Blacks consider wildly running around in ridiculously baggy clothing, listening to music that has to bearing on reality, and selling crack because it's cool while refusing to allow themselves to climb up in society, like the Italian mobsters wanted their children to be able to do, as "gangsta". It is a disgrace to everything the mafia established.

Answer 2

A "gangster" is a member of a group that is involved in organized crime.

A sychronized swim team isn't organized crime, so I take it the swim team might have done something that the writer of the article associates with being "gangster."

Some folks pronounce the word without a heavy ER sound, thus gangsta.

Answer 3

Holly  stop using urban dictionary because its a bunch of bull s***  most of the info there is not accurate ....gangsta can mean to do something rebellious  or most of the time people these days whether they or black or white or any other race use it just for fun example "Oh that was gangsta"  instead of saying "thats cool"  "thats gangsta"  

so to sum it up its another (IMO)  childish slang word

Answer 4

LMAO

gangsta- it means your not afraid of nobody, even jesus lol

Answer 5

are you serious

it means gangster and it is pronounced gayng-stah