D R S GANGSTA LEAN
D R S GANGSTA LEAN, In the 1990s countless R B acts incorporated hip hop but not many of them used straight up gangsta rap Meet D R S whose name stands for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Formed by Jail Bait The Merciless Deuce Deuce The Shooter Endo The Shitstarter Blunt The Blunted Pic The Bitch Killer these scoundrels broke into the scene in 1993 with a huge hit called Gangsta Lean Lean was not your typical Slow Jam Instead of love or sex which seem to be the two main subjects of most Slow Jams this song was about friends or homies as the song says who pass away Anyone whos ever lost someone they love can identify with Gangsta Lean and the tune was one of the biggest R B hits of the year Besides Gangsta Lean D R S had no other radio hits off their debut CD also entitled Gangsta Lean Other notable Slow Jams on this CD include a cover of Princes Do Me Baby but much of the time the Los Angeles quintet doesnt sing about love or romance but instead gang violence drug dealing carjacking and other problems plaguing the inner city Like Ice T 2Pac or Ice Cube D R S embraces a first person format and gives you the perspective of the gangbanger the criminal or the thug which of course makes its violent accounts all the more disturbing Gangsta Lean was among the most unique releases of 1993 but unfortunately D R S experimentation didnt pay off commercially It does pay off creatively however making Gangsta Lean a gem thats worth searching for