Gangsta Musik. The verses are animated but pretty ordinary; the main moment here is the chorus, which feels plucked straight from the tall tee era. While there are plenty of recent rap songs that ...

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Snoop Dogg had No. 1 songs with Akon, Katy Perry, and Pharrell Williams, but he was only the lead artist on one of those songs.

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In a recent episode of *Hard Knock Radio*, host Davey D sat down with legendary West Coast hip-hop artist Volume 10 for an in-depth conversation about his career, his groundbreaking contributions to ...

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The lyrics of his songs contained minimal humor and poeticism ... this has evolved into something much more troubling than the mere “gangster rap” that worried parents in the 1990s, when ...

On “Do You Have a Destination?” a track from Mac Miller’s “Balloonerism,” his second posthumous release, the rapper muses on one of his most frequently explored topics: life and death.

That song has been my passport ... I could tell you about two or three gangsta-rap versions I’ve heard. There are dance versions, also Euro-pop versions. Some are horrible, but there are ...

Authorities have said that the gunfire stemmed from competition between East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect and West Coast groups of a Crips sect, including Davis, for dominance in a genre known ...