Knowledge the Pirate counts himself as a member of the rapper Roc Marciano’s inner circle. Alongside KA, who we recently nominated as recording the best New York City rap album of the year, Knowledge ...
With “Dipset Anthem”, the Diplomats created an immortal song. For our latest Behind the Beat, Rsonist (of The Heatmakerz) tells Thomas Hobbs why we’re still listening to that “gangsta music” 20 years ...
Most of the artists features on Kenny Beats’ YouTube series The Cave — in which the producer and his guest build a song from scratch while casually kicking it in the studio — are rappers. Mac DeMarco ...
For fans and critics who intellectualize it, gangsta rap, or “reality rap,” is serious business. For them, the defining genre of West Coast hip-hop represents true stories from the ’hood as told by ...
Memphis rap is enjoying a spotlight moment, with the likes of GloRilla, Moneybagg Yo, NLE Choppa and others, turning out hit singles, platinum albums and earning more mainstream acclaim than any ...
For the latest edition of Pursuit of Happiness, superproducer Buddah Bless talks about turning negativity to power and more. 21 hours ago Once again, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le shone a ...
The characters hailed from 1930, but the lawyers re-enacting Alphonse “Scarface” Capone’s July 1930 Dade County perjury trial Tuesday performed on a familiar stage: the courthouse, where acting, ...
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He’s straight outta synagogue. Nissim Black, a black Orthodox Jewish rapper from the streets of Seattle, landed in New York with a bang this week, headlining a concert in Passaic, N.J., Thursday and ...
No one wants to take credit for coining the term “gangsta rap.” At least, no rappers do. As noted in L.A. Weekly's story commemorating the 20th anniversary of Eazy-E’s death, during N.W.A’s time, ...
Here is a fun video for all the Star Wars fans out there, the third video in the Star Wars Gangsta Rap series, and definitely the funniest so far, the Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles. MCs Vader, ...
Before he was an actor, before he made TV shows and movies with his own production company, before he had a record label, Ice Cube was a rapper. Cube was just a kid in 1988 when he and NWA helped ...