Brian May shares Queen’s liberal stance on the use of their music, except when it came to gangsta rap that promoted violence ...

The late 1990s boasted quite a bit of bubblegum pop music, and these three icons personified that era beautifully.

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship, ‘the most extensive music censorship campaign in ...

including gangsta rap, drill, crunk, trap, hyphy, and many more. And we have the Bronx, New York, to thank for birthing hip-hop, which is now one of the most popular genres in music history.

Rapper Tupac Shakur’s lyrics against a politician who was on a crusade against rap music were opinion and thus protected from defamation claims ... Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. We are currently in a moment of 2000s nostalgia. I suppose it was inevitable. After spending 20 years stuck ...

The legendary Queen guitarist explained that the band refused to let an artist use one of their biggest tracks during the ...

On this day in 1995, gangsta rap pioneer Eric “Eazy-E” Wright succumbed ... a rare power move in the music business at the time. “Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing ...