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 ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

This mural of the groundbreaking gangsta rap group N.W.A., in the famous art district of Wynwood in Miami, was created by a group of Latino artists known as TATS CRU. (Wikimedia Commons) This nearly ...

Ice Cube is considered one of the early leaders of the so-called “Gangsta Rap” phenomenon, so any opinion he offers on the subject is valid. Recently, Candace Owens posited a theory that the Hip-Hop ...

Universal and director F. Gary Gray have found their MC Ren and DJ Yella, adding two more thesps who’ll portray core members of rising 1980s gangsta rap group N.W.A in biopic Straight Outta Compton.

From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. A ...

Hip-hop is defined by its sub-genres. With each new decade or era, rappers of different regions and origins provide their own take on hip-hop, creating a new branch on the tree of the genre and ...