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Review: Fresh, hot-off-the-plate yet classic-sounding gangsta rap from the collaboration of Free Nationals, Anderson .Paak and A$AP Rocky. 'Gangsta' flips the script of the genre, lyrically examining the hip-hop genre's historical obsession with gangsters, while more avowedly narrating the story of a 'wangsta' whose wannabe proclamations of realness have no match for Rocky and .Paak's authentic intuitions, owing to their true-blood, inherited street knowledge. It's a fresh, empowering new move from the LA-based hip-hop group, whose sound evinces a well-produced, jazz-flavoured and Dilla-eqsue wonk come clarity of sound, as ever.