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If I recall correctly, and it has been a while since I played, that the gangster "affectations" of most of the people were straight up admitted to be empty boasts (save the player character who really is that hardcore).
Obviously if you really tried you could squeeze an alternate interpretation out of anything, but most of the characters in San Andreas were nowhere near as hardcore as they pretended to be, IMO.
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Whatever the entry's merits, it looks like it makes incorrect use of indentation.
To me (especially growing up in African-American culture), it's pretty obvious that Mad Dogg meant "hoes" as in "groupies". GTA games (San Andreas in particular) do not typically have flattering depictions of women, so I'd argue that trying to read more "problematic" forms of sex trafficking out of this is definitely grasping at straws. As Viking said, CJ literally acts as a pimp during a few mandatory story missions, and can do so as an optional sidequest for the rest of the game, and the "working girls" he picks up and drops off are depicted as little more than raunchy, promiscuous floozies that are using what they got to make money.
Even IF Madd Dogg was referring to women whom he used or pimped out himself, this isn't portrayed in the GTA universe as inherently monstrous or corrupt any moreso than the everyday monstrosities and corruption that every other character engages in.
Yeah, I think we should cut this one.
From YMMV.Grand Theft Auto San Andreas:
This entry reads to me like a misinterpretation, especially if you've played through the game like I have.
There's nothing to suggest Madd Dogg has any sexual affairs or is a pimp (let alone being involved in sex trafficking or prostitution), or if OG Loc is gay beyond a mission about killing someone who may or may not have prison rape him (its evident throughout the game that Loc is an disloyal backstabber). In his radio interview, Loc points a gun at Lazlow for "dissing his hoes", which most likely refers to his fans (the interview even semi-jokingly states he's "hated women all his life" if you take him using hoe in a derogative sense). Hell, the third part there even addresses that Dogg likely uses hoes to refer to Loc stealing away his groupies.
Any thoughts?