From sound to lyrical content and imagery, Straight Outta Compton defined the emerging gangsta rap genre ... While rock music is littered with logos, the Queens rap collective A Tribe Called ...

Lupe revealed as much in a new episode of Okayplayer’s show, The Almanac of Rap, sharing CRS’ origin story and where the seemingly defunct group now stands. “It was me rapping over Radiohead ...

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 ...

Make no mistake, folks! No matter what the authorities claim, the menacing gang wars in Bombay-Mumbai never ended. If proof is needed, one just has to read between the lines of the brutal murder o ...

He posted a defiant rap music video on social media days after the stabbing. The rapper has posted songs with a disclaimer saying they are for “entertainment purposes” and that “lyrics ...

“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 ...

Mark Cuban argued social media algorithms are feeding former President Donald Trump’s “gangsta” appeal and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign needs a plan to combat it. Cuban ...

Hot streaks can’t last forever. And if you’re a successful recording artist with a long career, the moment inevitably comes when fans and critics feel let down by a new album. This can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man linked to serious organised crime threw £90,000 worth of cocaine out of his car window during a police chase on Scotland's busiest motorway. Martin Murphy, 45, has been jailed for four ...

How does he continue to run his crime syndicate from behind bars? And how does a gangster fit into a serious geopolitical crisis between two democracies with deep historical ties? Bishnoi ...