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

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 ...

On this day in 1995, gangsta rap pioneer Eric “Eazy-E” Wright succumbed to complications from AIDS, less than 10 days after publicly revealing his diagnosis. Few figures in hip-hop history ...

A recent, and largely well-done, HBO documentary on the parallel careers of music producer Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre was noticeably squeamish about the details of the early 1990s “gangsta rap ...

where actual gangsters work side by side with gangsta rappers. The racially diverse terrain of the music trade allows the film to poke fun at contemporary race relations, and the collision of ...

Now she has forged an unlikely alliance with some of America's most controversial gangsta rappers. The former Spice Girl has teamed up with artists associated with drugs and violence as she tries ...