
The individualists stare into each other’s eyes and yet deny each other’s existence. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city. I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. I look at old performance videos now, and it’s really funny – I thought I was such a gangster! – Becky GĤ9.

I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume. As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city – and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. – Charlie Hunnam King and Queen QuotesĤ5. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage. Not like gangsters – well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality – but not the types that are preying on innocent people.

Instead it changed its name to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by master criminal Vladimir Putin. After the fall of Communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltzin’s regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

You don’t have to be a gangster rapper to be successful. You are literally like a little gangster thug. We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? – Nah,ģ9. Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
