While the industry has contributed to many positives, some rappers have included thugs, gangsters, and criminals in their lyrics. Some have been in court for cases involving illegal substances, gun ...

Crime? Violence? Social issues? Living street life like a thug? Darth Sidious is the most gangsta of them all. Taking the ...

Atlanta police accused an unnamed rapper of sparking a gang conflict by shooting a music video in rival gang territory, which ...

But it also came to be associated with violence, drug culture, gangs, and misogyny. As a result, many icons of the genre were ...

Elsewhere, coupled with the looped screams, low bass, and fixation on “death, destruction around every corner” of “Approach To Danger,” N.W.A head beyond the gangsta rap genre they ...

Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem. The rap group ...

Young MC won a Grammy for "Bust a Move" after co-writing "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" for Tone Loc. Here's what he ...

A convicted killer has released a rap EP and made a ‘censored’ gesture from behind bars after his music was flagged to the authorities. Kammar Henry-Richards, who goes by the name Kay-O, says he is ...

Legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan on Monday announced their "Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber" tour that will launch this ...

Voletta Wallace, mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. who kept her son's legacy alive, died at her Pennsylvania home at age ...