In Cyprus, poets face off in sharp-witted rhyme battles which trace their roots back centuries. Known as tsiattista, the ...

Looking back on his storied career, Ice-T reflected on his rise from underground MC to full-blown cultural pioneer.

pound for pound the best West Coast gangsta rap album of all time? You’ve got Ice Cube at the top of his game, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and Arabian Prince cooking up some of the hardest beats in West ...

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 ...

Gangsta rap has at last become a home-grown German ... doesn't mean I won't beat you till you're blue." Again and again the lyrics of Bushido and his gangsta rapper homies openly flirt with ...

Education through lyrics were broken down and rolled into melodic and funky beats with the birth of ... From the emergence of gangsta rap and G-Funk to the unfolding of socially conscious lyrics ...

Percentage of Gen Xers who rated this artist as popular: 50% The Notorious B.I.G. is also known as Biggie Smalls and was the face of East Coast gangsta rap and a revered hip-hop artist until he ...

He debuted as a Jheri curl-donning Crip who backed his way into rap, once saying outright he ... he embodies the "Eazy-Duz-It" principle of a "gangsta having fun," and continues to revel in ...

Of the band who began Gangsta Rap, arguably the only gangster was Easy ... Ice Cube social commentary to banging beats made him a lightning rod culturally and musically, in his late teens and ...

As seen through the film depiction of N.W.A. in “Straight Outta Compton,” white people were disgusted with and fearful of “gangsta ... drill rap. Drill rap refers to music that talks about the violent ...

South Carolina has been waiting for a contender to GO OFF in the Rap Jungle, aka “The Rap Game ... the trendsetters of that lane before her; Gangsta Boo, La Chat and Mia X.