Gangsta Zone
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"Gangsta Zone" is a 2005 single by reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...

 and rapper Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

. It was the second single released from Daddy Yankee's album Barrio Fino En Directo
Barrio Fino en Directo
Barrio Fino en Directo is the second live album by Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee, released on December 13, 2005, by El Cartel Records. The album is a live collection of songs from Daddy Yankee's previous album Barrio Fino...

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Music video

A music video for Gangsta Zone was released. The video is shot in grayscale
Grayscale
In photography and computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity information...

 and features both artists in a Barrio
Barrio
Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood.-Usage:In its formal usage in English, barrios are generally considered cohesive places, sharing, for example, a church and traditions such as feast days...

 of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 and depicts images of typical barrio life.

Charts

Chart (2006/2007) Peak
position
Latin America MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

Top 20 Videos
12

Remix

A remix of Gangsta Zone has also been released. It features reggaeton artists Hector "El Father", Yomo
Yomo
Yomo is a Puerto Rican reggaeton recording artist. He was raised in the barrio of Tres Puntos, Humacao, Puerto Rico...

, Arcángel & De La Ghetto
Arcangel & De La Ghetto
Arcángel y De La Ghetto are a Reggaeton Duo, which consist of Austin "Arcángel" Santos and Rafael "De La Ghetto" Castillo.Arcángel and De La Ghetto are both of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent...

 and Angel Doze. It's a diss track
Diss track
A diss track or diss song is a song primarily intended to disparage or insult another person or group. While musical parodies and attacks have always existed, the trend became increasingly common in the hip hop genre as part of the hip hop rivalry phenomenon...

 aimed towards Don Omar
Don Omar
Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey (born William Omar Landrón Rivera; February 10, 1978, is a Puerto Rican Reggaetón singer and actor.-Early life:...

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Charts

Chart (2006/2007) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles
37
U.S. Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay 23
U.S. Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay 39
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