Rappers the Next Super Heroes?

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 8, 2005 @10:40AM from the oi-gevalt dept.

The Guardian's excellent gamesblog has an editorial up discussing the role rappers and rap culture has taken in games. From the article: "Following Def Jam Vendetta and more pertinently Def Jam Fight for New York, this is another game that places real-life Hip Hop artists within a fictitious gangland setting. It's an interesting sub-genre, trading in on the mythologies that many rappers build around themselves in their lyrics, album art and endless feuds - fantasies of gun violence, rivalry and retribution."

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Two comments by Mike+Hawk · 2005-03-08 10:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

They have been making crappy games with rappers for a while now. Cash rules everything around me.

And I don't know what they mean about fantasies of gun violence. I bet 2-Pac wishes they only had fantasies of gun violence. And as near as I can tell, 50 Cent didn't shoot himself. Suge Knight isn't really a nice guy when you get to know him. Snoop really did get put on trial for murder. Man rap music is fun.