I was at the beach and Julie, Emily, and their friends knew all the words to Gangsta's Paradise By Coolio.

In fact, Newsweek put Snoop on their cover in 1993 with a headline that read: ‘When Is Rap 2 Violent?’ It was around this ...

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 ...

A recent, and largely well-done, HBO documentary on the parallel careers of music producer Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre was noticeably squeamish about the details of the early 1990s “gangsta rap ...