In fact, Newsweek put Snoop on their cover in 1993 with a headline that read: ‘When Is Rap 2 Violent?’ It was around this ...

And the rapper bristled when his song was lumped in with the so-called "gangster rap" scene. "I'm trying to get rid of that jacket that's been put on my back - that I'm a gangsta rapper," he said ...

Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One of the songs that referred to Tucker, “How Do U Want It,” says, “Delores Tucker, yous a muthafucka, instead of trying to help a nigga you destroy a ...

It’s not surprising that absolute power corrupted Sean Combs absolutely — especially within the context of the larger hip-hop music and culture trajectory from fun to dangerous as gangsta rap ...

This is about San Diego rap and the incredible way it got where it is today. You ready ? This is a San Diego story. S1: With its start in the early 1980s. Gangster rap is a subgenre of American ...

Over the last 30 years, Diddy's label Bad Boy Records has released music from artists like Machine Gun Kelly, Janelle Monaé, ...

Funny enough, the main logo of the group is a six-pointed Star ... it — the state of hip-hop at the time was focused on a “gangsta rap type of thing,” so the record label pushed him to ...

won a Grammy for the 1995 track Gangsta's Paradise. The hit - later chosen as the soundtrack to the film Dangerous Minds - went on to become one of the most successful rap songs of all time ...

Gangster rap has become synonymous with hip hop music, thanks in large part to legendary artists like N.W.A. The Los Angeles-based rap group took the world by storm in the early '90s with ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR RAP SONGS RANKED BY MAINSTREAM R&B/HIP-HOP AND RHYTHMIC RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY ...

“Those prosecutors should’ve been put in a Cuisinart and turned on high,” the homemaking icon says in director R.J. Cutler's film set for an Oct. 30 release. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau ...

and the gangster rap-focused Once Upon a Time in LA. Those events — part of Live Nations’s highly successful move into mini-festivals at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic — generated tens of ...