Listen to the tunes of Foe Tha Love of $, a hard-hitting gangsta rap anthem about hustling for money featuring rapid-fire ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. We are currently in a moment of ...

DJ Master Tee made the original silky-smooth beat (which was later adapted by co-producer Tony Pizarro) for Dear Mama, the late rap legend ... that even the biggest gangsta rapper in America ...

The earliest pioneers established that women deserved recognition not as accessories but as central figures in hip-hop culture ... Southern rap as a dominant force. Gangsta Boo emerged as the ...

DOOM’s complex rhyme schemes and pop culture references, combined with Madlib’s eclectic ... Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” challenged the gangsta rap narrative that had dominated mainstream ...

Known as one of the forefathers of gangsta rap, Schoolly D put Philadelphia on the map in 1985 with his hit, "P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)". Although the Bronx is widely recognized as the ...

It combines elements of gangsta rap, R&B and other musical influences ... I guess I would call it a company culture. They created this culture where people would just be sending beats, artists ...

VIP Records’ owner, Kelvin Anderson, shared plans to preserve the record shop’s history by establishing a museum in Long ...