Bottom line: Few groups in the history of music have changed the landscape of popular culture like N.W.A., which turned ...

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

“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were hawked out of trunks to local DJ’s and radio personalities. An organic phenomenon that eventually gained national fame and ...

Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One of the songs that referred to Tucker, “How Do U Want It,” says, “Delores Tucker, yous a muthafucka, instead of trying to help a nigga you destroy a ...

Rap and hip-hop music are in the spotlight once again, especially after the Grammy Awards and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX ...