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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3894043" data-attributes="member: 48965">Oh...you mean like this...50 cent... <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/50%20cent%20a%20.fake." target="_blank">http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/50 cent a .fake.</a>.What I'm saying is that their rapper personas are often vast exaggerations of what they've actually been through.  Furthermore in alot of more recent gangsta rap the realities of street life are often glamourized to the point approaching absurdity.  This my original statement that it's akin to a "based on a true story" type movie, with all the liberties that can involve.Selling to different audiences and you yourself said the whole "keepin it real" thing is important to keep selling things.  Whether it's true or false is a matter of taking the time and effort to resarch the particular artist...something very few people are going to actually do.I feel it's you who have it confused.  You readily admit no one should believe 50 cent is selling drugs between shows or doing drive bys...yet you earlier claim shooting a gun sideways & hitting innocent bystanders is part of a rapppers lifestyle.  Which one is it.  My point is a rapper and a rapper's persona and music are totally different things...All I did was state that most rappers aren't doing these things (except #2)...and that they are more the province of the culture rappers base their music on.You were correct in assuming I was talking about elements of gangsta rap...which are essentially exaggerated elements of street life.  Where I differentiated, and it may have been a misunderstanding on my part about what you were saying was the difference between the actual rappers and what they do vs. their music and what it's about.  My game elements are from their music and personas...not from actual rappers and their real lives.  That's all I'm saying.Gangsta rap is based on gangbanger culture...D&D is such a high powered game at mid to high levels it doesn't really do gritty urban realistic very well, but it does do gangsta rap exaggeration of streetlife pretty well.  I mean you really can take 20 arrows at a cerain level and keep coming...you can annihilate the city guard special task force at a certain level all by yourself, etc.I will bow out on this discussion now, as I feel it has hijacked the thread long enough.  I really didn't expect it to go on for this long, and I feel I may have misunderstood Teflon Billy or he may have misunderstood me.  In either case I don't think much more will be accomplished by further discussion of the topic, so I will refrain from discussing rap in this thread.</blockquote>

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