Doesn't it just piss you off to listen to these kind of people? Seriously, I don't get the whole fascination with gangsters and that kind of bullshit. "I'm a thug. Don't mess with me!" Is that supposed to really sound intimidating? I somehow doubt it, and really, they're probably nothing close to a thug. As far as I'm concerned, a thug is a person who attacks someone else and steals from them, or something like that. But this is coming from people who live in a small ass town in the middle of nowhere, where the only crime is from these shit heads spraypainting a line on a building. Oh my, don't put a line on that building! Then you'll be a thug!
Another thing that's just completely retarded is the idea of a rap battle. And yes, I've actually heard people challenge someone to a rap battle. Not like they actually got on a stage and had it judged, but they'd say rhyming, whitty remarks to make their "homies" give a hearty chuckle. "I challenge you to a rap battle!" is probably less productive than challenging someone to a Pokemon battle or some stupid card game like Yu-Gi-Oh. At least Pokemon is a creation of technology. Rap battles, or just rap in general, are a creation of some shit head kid who thinks he's cool.
As for the whole drug thing, I don't see why "thugs" are anything special. They seem to smoke up about as much as any stoner. But for some reason that makes them a thug, or gangster. It also for some reason seems to make them think they can rap.
And thus I have narrowed down a few characteristics that "thugs" seem to have:
Says words that start with Y and W all the time (Yeah, Yo, What, etc)
Thinks he can rap
Has a gimped way of walking
Wears hats facing the side or pulled up, however they can look more retarded
Does drugs, or at least claims to
Likes to threaten people and is overly aggressive
There's probably some other things I'm leaving out, but you get the point. So apparently, if I say "What," "Yo," "Y'all," rap by saying two words that rhyme, hold my hand across chest and other stiff at side, stiffen one knee while walking, wear a hat to the side, and tell everyone I'm gonna get high and punch in their face, then I'm a thug. Score, looks like this can be easy. But wait no, I still ened to claim that my life's shitty and that I grew up in a ghetto, forgot about that. Well I think that breaks it down then. I wonder if they purposely try to mimic people with mental dissabilities while walking, or maybe they have other reaons for walking like an idiot. Maybe their arm is tired from smoking up and masturbating to bestiality porn, and they stiffen their leg because they're impotent and try to make up for it. As for the hat thing, I suppose it's in the way too much, facing forward, and is an obstacle when they're sucking on a dick. But hey, they gotta clear that throat somehow for all that rapping they have to do.
Another funny thing, that's kind of related, is when people threaten you with their "connections" and how they know people that could "kick my ass." These kinds of people always amuse me. Especially coming from someone who lives in a town with a population of only 10 000. Yeah, you've got connections alright, you're whole three friends who think they're cool too, and steal instruction booklets from video games, because it makes them a thug. Yeehaw, you got a fuckin' booklet! What's next? Oh, gonna go out and spray paint another line on the convenience store? That's always a cool thing to do. But really, the odd part is that they're not really threatening you in any way, moreover telling you that they'll go get their child-molesting uncle to honk his horn at you and flip you off. That's about as much danger you're in from these people threatening you. I've purposely given my address and everything to people and asked tehm to send out their goons to come kill me. Nothing happens, they're just a pussy and are too unoriginal to think of a way to insult you other than to say: "Hey I fucked your mom last night!" and then when you laugh at them and say something back they think: "Oh shit, my super cool insult didn't bring this guy down. I better threaten him before he questions my sexuality."
Only other thing I've got to say on this is: Go jump off a bridge and die!