Snoop Dogg joined the Zac Brown Band on a new country-rap single, "Let It Run," describing the collaboration as 'gangster ...

Let’s talk about the best Gangsta Rap songs of all time. Gangsta Rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that, since its inception in the 1980s, has remained an influential aspect of the culture. Speaking ...

The state Supreme Court is shown during oral arguments in November 2013. Today the justices asked dozens of questions about rap lyrics that were used as evidence of a 2005 murder. (Patti Sapone ...

Gangsta rap sales have declined as murder among young black men has risen. The numbers, courtesy of dallaspenn.com: In fact, from the looks of this chart, we need to bring back gangsta rap.

The blockbuster film “Straight Outta Compton” dramatizes the emergence of Southern California rap group N.W.A. In 1988, the group’s self-titled album popularized gangsta rap music… ...

8. Master P – “Stop Hatin’“ (1997) No Limit Records was successful because it rewrote the gangsta-rap playbook by making it more consumer-friendly. Critics hated Master P because he turned ...

The blockbuster summer movie Straight Outta Compton borrowed its name from a groundbreaking 1988 album from N.W.A.—the first gangsta rap record to go huge. The original Straight Outta Compton ...

No one wants to take credit for coining the term “gangsta rap.” At least, no rappers do. As noted in L.A. Weekly's story commemorating the 20th anniversary of Eazy-E’s death, during N.W.A ...

I have no fondness for rap, but I thought the article on N.W.A might be interesting reading nonetheless ("Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics," by Terry McDermott, April 14).

This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, November 12, 2003. So we decided to get Grammy-nominee Cam'ron, who raps about pimping and bitches -- among other things -- and rap producer ...

N.W.A. helped popularize “gangsta rap” in the late 1980s, and even this hagiography can’t hide the fact that its legacy has endured to the detriment of poor black communities.