2015Released
4:05

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Interesting facts and trivia about Gangsta. By Songfacts®.

This song finds Dahlia attacking people who claim to be "gangsta" without knowing what it really means. The songstress also recounts her own struggles growing up when was forced to take waitressing jobs to pay for her studio sessions and living with her mom, grandmother and sister in one bedroom.

The song took Dahlia around three days to write. She explained during a Reddit AMA: "I started it and then one day, I got in a big fight with my manager at the time, and I sat down at the bar of the restaurant I was working at, and I pretty much finished the whole song. And then I think like, the third day, I really just fleshed it out and made sure everything was as I wanted it to be. So it probably took about three days, and then I recorded it all in one take."

This was released as Dahlia's commercial debut single on March 1, 2013 by Vested in Culture and Epic Records. Dahlia dropped a Spanish-language version of the song a couple of months later.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Gangsta.
GKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
150BPM

Album

The album Gangsta is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Gangsta.
Epic/Vested In Culture
(P) 2014 Vested in Culture, a division of Epic Records/Sony Music Entertainment

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