Once again, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le shone a spotlight on Dr. Dre’s past and the violence, misogyny and sexism enshrined in rap music—especially gangsta rap—as produced by N.W.A. To ...
Should 50 Cent be barred from Canada? Well, I don't know Mr. Cent. If I did, I could call him Fiddy. That's what his friends and other rap star/moguls call him. So my view on whether he should or ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The term ...
On this day in 1997, Master P released his sixth studio album Ghetto D, a landmark project that not only shifted the sound of Southern rap but also stamped No Limit Records as a dominant force in hip ...
“Peace man. It’s CG. I believe we can blur the lines of academia and hip-hop in a very subtle way. Get the ball rolling with new leaders of industry at esteemed Ivy institutions, etc. All through what ...
It’s a “G” thang. Once confined to the darkest corners of the hip-hop underground, gangsta rap has become mainstream America’s worst musical nightmare. At a time when gangsta rap has achieved ...
US West Coast rapper Coolio died on September 28, 2022. He was 59. (Image via Wikimedia Commons) One summer afternoon in the mid-1990s, the rapper Coolio – who passed away earlier this week – ...
Vince Staples’s Summertime ‘06 is the hardest album to hit the rap game in a decade, maybe more. Since “hard” is a buzzword that rappers freely claim and/or misuse whenever their supposed authenticity ...
"If it doesn't work out with hip hop," shrugs Bushido, Germany's most notorious rap star, "then I'll just sell drugs." It probably won't come to that. The 26-year-old half Tunisian Berliner is turning ...
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