Tre: In LA, in general, the dynamic of hip-hop was that you were either a gangster or the artistic, creative type. Imani: But [the underground] wasn’t bubbling big enough back then. Gangster rap ...

BOSTON — As Hip Hop celebrates its 50 years of influence on music and culture, UMass Boston gives us local context with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, housed in the Joseph P. Healy Library ...

Just-Ice didn't do rap beef. He would shoot people. In the 80s. Watch the exclusive convo with The Bronx emcee that says he invented Gangster Rap.

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week ...

Representing the next waves, including early gangster rap, Southern hip-hop and 21st-century pop crossovers, were artists like Queen Latifah, Big Boi of Outkast and Missy Elliott, who performed ...

According to a post to his Instagram profile on Monday, Oct. 14, the underground hip-hop legend died unexpectedly on Saturday. “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of Kaseem Ryan,” the ...

The Birth of Miami Bass 1983-1992 The 2 Live Crew In hip-hop's becoming, Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell and the 2 Live Crew commanded headlines in the media culture wars.

In the 1990s Washington said rap music was a symptom of the destruction of American values. Now, President Obama, Sen. Marco Rubio and others embrace hip-hop and welcome its stars.

The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake absorbed a great deal of oxygen this year, and from a distance it might appear that all the stakes for hip-hop in 2024 boiled down to this war of titans ...

After taking off in the early 2000s, Ka’s career didn’t show many signs of stopping, right up until his latest release. In his lifetime, which spanned 1972 to 2024, he released 11 albums, all ...