Through the latter half of the ’90s, G-Rock ended up serving as a sort of in-house producer for some of San Jose’s “realest” gangster rappers (as in “actual gangbangers who happen to rap”) such as ...

The ’90s evokes a feeling of freedom, nostalgia and bliss for a lot of millennials and even some Gen Z. So what better thing ...

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 ...

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

“It’s where artists want to be,” the 54-year-old Cube says. “Some people want to be feared and all that goofy stuff, but to ...

“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were ... You could hear the metallic sheen of ‘90s prosperity rising off Bad Boy’s music. Most importantly, the label was home to a rapper ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The ‘90s was a very heterosexual and very masculine climate,” says Medusa the Gangsta Goddess, a longtime creative force in the Leimert Park underground hip-hop world. “L.A. male rappers ...

in the early '90s. In addition to releasing such now classic hip-hop albums as "Power," "The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say," "and "O.G. Original Gangster," he also began ...

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