For fans and critics who intellectualize it, gangsta rap, or “reality rap,” is serious business. For them, the defining genre of West Coast hip-hop represents true stories from the ’hood as told by ...
The star sat for a conversation at the 2025 Billboard Live Music Summit. 14 hours ago Once again, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le shone a spotlight on Dr. Dre’s past and the violence, ...
If a rapper were only to be known for one song, it’s hard to beat “Gangsta’s Paradise.” Coolio’s signature No. 1 smash in 1995 was voted the best single of the year in the Village Voice’s “Pazz & Jop” ...
With “Dipset Anthem”, the Diplomats created an immortal song. For our latest Behind the Beat, Rsonist (of The Heatmakerz) tells Thomas Hobbs why we’re still listening to that “gangsta music” 20 years ...
Here is a fun video for all the Star Wars fans out there, the third video in the Star Wars Gangsta Rap series, and definitely the funniest so far, the Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles. MCs Vader, ...
Memphis rap pioneers were celebrated at the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. The concert paid tribute to the late Gangsta Boo, a prominent figure in Memphis rap. Memphis rap is enjoying a ...
Rapper. Actor. Architect? Most people donNt know Ice Cube earned a certificate in architecture from the Phoenix Institute of Technology. YNknow, just in case the genre-creating music thing didnNt work ...
Freddie Gibbs may have flat-lined gangsta rap. As one of the most hyped up-and-comers, the Indiana native has amassed a publicity portfolio that includes magazine covers, plaudits from The New Yorker, ...
He’s straight outta synagogue. Nissim Black, a black Orthodox Jewish rapper from the streets of Seattle, landed in New York with a bang this week, headlining a concert in Passaic, N.J., Thursday and ...