Taking a brief look back at the genre, hip-hop was born from the competitive spirit of MCs going bar-for-bar at block parties ...

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 ...

Rap and hip-hop music are in the spotlight once again, especially after the Grammy Awards and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX ...

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship ... and often empowering mode of expression for a ...

“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were ... shift in sound and economic realities that catapulted hip-hop culture from the underground into the mainstream. As Jeff Chang explains ...

We’ve been spendin’ most their lives livin’ in the gangsta’s paradise We’ve been ... impact made it one of the most memorable rap songs in history. It blends rap with a choir-backed ...