While many labels and trends briefly captured the spotlight, REVOLT rounded up 11 brands that rappers loved during the ’90s and 2000s. A Bathing Ape (BAPE) was founded in Tokyo in 1993 by Nigo ...

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship ... clutching their pearls at Snoop Dogg’s music in ...

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-genre became mainstream with the likes of Dr ...

Part One, Motive105 is back with his debut mixtape, Heartbroken, But Kept It Gangster. The new tape is UK rap at its best, ...

Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr, won a Grammy for the 1995 track Gangsta's Paradise ... figure in the US West Coast rap music scene in the 90s. His rap moniker came from a ...