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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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