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T—one of Hip Hop’s most influential voices and a true pioneer of gangsta rap—released his fourth studio album, O.G. Original ...
The Godfather of Gangsta Rap is getting a digital makeover through the power of A.I. that'll have him live through infinite ...
But, it’s a challenge we relish. So, to round off Black Music Month, we decided to attempt the impossible and rank the 100 greatest rap albums of all time. Yep, of all time — and, yep ...
but the highs on those 70-minute albums hold up and shouldn’t be lost to history. The tough New York rap and West Coast gangsta rap that dominated the ’90s continued into the early 2000s ...
Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be. But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied ...
At the time, West Coast “gangsta” rap was dominating the genre ... of producers to help craft what would become the perfect rap album. Nas was the Second Coming, the Chosen One, and Large ...
Coolio, the Grammy-winning rapper best known for the 1995 single “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died, his manager confirmed Wednesday. He was 59. “We are saddened by the loss of our dear friend ...
The concert paid tribute to the late Gangsta Boo, a prominent figure in Memphis rap. Memphis rap is enjoying ... turning out hit singles, platinum albums and earning more mainstream acclaim ...