For fans and critics who intellectualize it, gangsta rap, or “reality rap,” is serious business. For them, the defining genre of West Coast hip-hop represents true stories from the ’hood as told by ...
Rapper. Actor. Architect? Most people donNt know Ice Cube earned a certificate in architecture from the Phoenix Institute of Technology. YNknow, just in case the genre-creating music thing didnNt work ...
Memphis rap pioneers were celebrated at the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. The concert paid tribute to the late Gangsta Boo, a prominent figure in Memphis rap. Memphis rap is enjoying a ...
The most chilling words on a hip-hop CD this year are heard in the opening minute of Snoop Doggy Dogg’s “Tha Doggfather” (Death Row/Interscope): “This is dedicated to the (African-Americans) who say ...
Freddie Gibbs may have flat-lined gangsta rap. As one of the most hyped up-and-comers, the Indiana native has amassed a publicity portfolio that includes magazine covers, plaudits from The New Yorker, ...
In the 2-1/2 decades since Marion “Suge” Knight founded his volatile label Death Row Records, the label’s artists and crew have moved beyond gangsta rap and onto more peaceful projects. Andre “Dr. Dre ...
Here is a fun video for all the Star Wars fans out there, the third video in the Star Wars Gangsta Rap series, and definitely the funniest so far, the Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles. MCs Vader, ...
Overtones is a new column by Jayson Greene that examines how certain sounds-- a snare crack, a synth blob, a ghostly string sample-- linger in our minds and lives. If you were a gangsta rap fan who ...
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