The Hip-Hop icon also defends Drill Rap. N.W.A (N##### Wit Attitudes) shocked the system in the late 1980s with their provocative lyrics about police brutality, street life and drug dealing. Did the ...

Let’s talk about the best Gangsta Rap songs of all time. Gangsta Rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that, since its inception in the 1980s, has remained an influential aspect of the culture. Speaking to ...

Notorious L.A. gangster rap group N.W.A caused havoc in the '80s when they were the first to address unspoken social issues such as violence on the streets and police brutality. With their passionate ...

When discussing 50 years of hip-hop, gangsta rap has to be mentioned, and Ice-T was one of the true pioneers in the music genre. Ice-T influenced many other artists with his lyrics and flow, and he ...

Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. Thanks ...

Jerry Heller, a veteran music manager who helped introduce N.W.A to the masses and promoted gangsta rap to a mainstream audience, died Friday in Thousand Oaks. He was 75. The Associated Press reported ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ta-Nehisi Coates, blogging his way through the holidays just like us, finds that ...

Jerry Heller, a once-powerful music executive who helped take gangsta rap mainstream as a ­record-company founder and the manager of the group N.W.A., but who was later pilloried as a caricature of ...