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

violent and highly successful style of gangsta rap that brought Los Angeles to the fore. Its producer, Dr Dre, would become perhaps the single most influential figure in the music’s history ...

“We have stopped them being used to promote violence or abuse, during the heyday of gangster rap when someone wanted ... May commented on whether new music might be coming from Queen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.