Depends for what you think is gangsta?
First you don't know people personally so you couldn;t tell, but regarding to their music and more exactly The Infamous i don't think they were portraying themselves as gangsta.
Threadstarter probably doesn't even know what gangsta is.
They were more like street thugs that threated to start punching niggaz in the face for money.
Infamous more depicted them in that way, you know?
As for those stories about art school and shit, i heard the same rumor for 2pac(on some internet forum like this) and i think its all jibberish and irrelevant.
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