Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

An alleged Brazilian teenager gangster in Massachusetts, who has almost a dozen police complaints against him, has agreed to ...

The '90s is a time known for questionable fashion, alternative and grunge rock, gangster rap, and sitcoms based around ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...

Is there a double standard when the law comes down hard on narcorridos but gangsta rap that extols crime gets a pass?

The family of Nepali student Yubin Tamang, 20, have been calling for justice since his tragic death last Saturday.

Boosie Badazz and Webbie are reuniting for Gangsta Musik 2, arriving November 21. The project celebrates the 20th anniversary of their acclaimed 2004 album Gangsta Musik, a defining moment in Southern ...

Four Decades of Attitude tour commits to memory and music and Ice Cube’s heft as a Hip-Hop legend and pioneer.

One of his music videos features a gangster grandma who smokes, slaps disrespectful men, and flips off the camera.

Notorious gangster Dave Courtney did not have a will and died penniless after taking his own life aged 64, it has been revealed. Courtney, who claimed to be an associate of 1960s gangland criminals ...

Travis Scott and Drake’s “SICKO MODE” is certified 16x platinum, tying it for the second-highest-certified rap song It is surpassed only by Scott and Kendrick Lamar’s 17x platinum collaboration, ...

A county lines gang member made 'drill' rap videos boasting of how he and an accomplice flooded Welsh streets with Class A drugs. Jake Clarke, from Birmingham, ran a drug line that supplied another ...