We all know about the bitter rivalry between East Coast versus West Coast rap in the '90s gangster rap led by Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Then there have been battles between Drake and Meek ...

A familiar rap character, the Cali hustler cruising in a low-rider, has faded in the 21st century. On new albums by G Perico, ...

Gangsta music has been in the offing since the mid-80s, with the earliest pioneers said to be Schoolly D, Ice-T and N.W.A. In the early 90s, the sub ... B.I.G. “Gangsta rap is a form of artistic ...

While much of the group’s critical success and rise to popularity occurred throughout the 90’s and early 2000s ... The ...

though still informed by the gangsta image that had taken root in the '80s and flourished in the '90s but faded in the '00s, shifted the locus of West Coast rap. Consider Anderson .Paak or Roddy ...

Not content to simply rap his way through life, Ice-T began pursuing an on-camera career, in earnest, in the early '90s. In addition ... Say," "and "O.G. Original Gangster," he also began building ...

In the ‘80s, before gangsta rap dominated the West Coast ... The Lady of Rage wasn’t the only great L.A. female rap hope during the ‘90s. At the turn of the decade, 18-year-old, spaghetti ...

"Office Space," Mike Judge's satirical take on white collar office culture, disappointed at the box office but soon became a ...

Without The Chronic taking underground gangsta rap, lacing it with the deep grooves of 70’s funk ... the gangsta lifestyle ...

This verbal boxing match is great entertainment, but the real winners are the artists and label executives getting rich off ...

Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on. Thank you to Daniel Aukin, Marie Bshara, and Blake Zidell and ...

Iconic hip-hop superstar Ice Cube brought the heat to downtown Oshawa Thursday night. The NWA founder, solo artist, prolific ...