Prosecutors sometimes use rap lyrics to argue that the defendant had a premeditated or violent mindset before the alleged ...

After being nominated three times, A Tribe Called Quest became the 12th hip-hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of ...

El Pasoan Ron Stallworth, the inspiration behind Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” has a new book that is both a police ...

Rapper Tupac Shakur’s lyrics against a politician who was on a crusade against rap music were opinion and thus protected ... Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One of the songs that ...

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship, ‘the most extensive music censorship campaign in ...

I had the joy of going to high school during the late ‘90s. Country music, alternative and gangster rap rang through the ...

violent and highly successful style of gangsta rap that brought Los Angeles to the fore. Its producer, Dr Dre, would become perhaps the single most influential figure in the music’s history ...

Gangster rap is a subgenre of American hip hop that ... Gangster is going to appreciate your music is going to be like , yo , okay , man , I'm not the dude that dance around , and I'm not the ...

It was the first "serious" rap song to top the ... together at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards That edit undoubtedly changed Coolio's life. A profane version of Gangsta's Paradise would never ...

Ice Cube is setting the record straight, dismissing Candace Owens’ wild theory about gangsta rap being “created by the Feds” in a conspiracy involving gay prison inmates. Last week ...

“Gangsta” rap focused on many of the negative elements ... By the late 1990s, hip-hop was dominating the popular music charts. Collectives like the Wu-Tang Clan (and all of its members ...

It’s never too late to change up the game! We all grow and evolve with time, so hats off to many of our favorite celebrities who aren’t afraid of change and simply do what they want to do.