Gangsta? (Tinchy Stryder song)

"Gangsta?"
Promotional single by Tinchy Stryder
from the album Third Strike
Released	28 May 2010
Recorded	2009–2010
Genre	Hardcore hip hop, rap rock
Length	2:35
Label	Takeover Entertainment Limited
Composer(s)	Kwasi Danquah III
Lyricist(s)	Kwasi Danquah III (Co-Lyricist) TMS (Co-Lyricist)
Producer(s)	TMS
Music video
"Gangsta?" on YouTube

"Gangsta?" is a song by recording artist Tinchy Stryder. It was released as a promotional single on 28 May 2010. It was produced by TMS and co-written by Stryder and TMS, and included on Stryder's third studio album, Third Strike . It charted at number sixty-seven on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Stryder's second song to chart outside the UK top 40, since the single Stryderman from his second solo studio album, Catch 22 charting at seventy-three. ^[1]

Music video

Screenshots from "Gangsta?"

An image of Tinchy Stryder in a scene in the music video for "Gangsta?".

An image of Tinchy Stryder in a 2nd scene in the music video for "Gangsta?".

The music video for "Gangsta" was directed by Adam Powell and Tinchy Stryder, and is approximately four minutes and seventeen seconds in length. It was uploaded to Stryder's YouTube channel on Thursday 26 May 2010. The video finds Stryder in two different intermodal containers, an office, and a dark parking garage, standing in front of his Gold Record wall plaque, wearing a Varsity Jacket from Star In The Hood, later changing into a Jay-Z black colored Roc Nation T-shirt, boasting, over turgid beats and cyber-synths, about his Twitter feed "f***ing with some anthems" and "having meetings with the president", a line which he bellows at every opportunity and is later joined by Tinie Tempah, who uses the same lyrics that he used in Stryder's song "Game Over". Stryder closes the music video by entering his white colored "Rolls-Royce Phantom" car, where he is accompanied by a female, who is believed to be Jodie Connor, and then his "Rolls-Royce Phantom" car drives out of an intermodal container. The video has now reached over 1.5 million views on Stryder's YouTube channel. ^[2]

Chart performance

Chart (2010)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC) [3]	67

Release history

Region	Date	Format
United Kingdom	28 May 2010 [4]	Digital Download

References

1. Gangsta official charting. Chart Stats.
2. Tinchy Stryder’s Gangsta? by Adam Powell Archived 2011-10-30 at the Wayback Machine . www.promonews.tv. Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Retrieved Monday, October 10, 2011.
3. "Tinchy Stryder: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
4. Tinchy Stryder - Gangsta?, Digital download. iTunes