Since it ain’t nothin’ but a G thing, this Black Music Month, we decided to take a look at one of rap’s most popular sub-genres: gangsta rap. Over the past three decades, this lane of hip-hop has ...

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Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” returns to the charts 30 years after its release, debuting at No. 7 on the Official Vinyl Singles chart. AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 17: Rapper Coolio performs live ...

Afrobeats star Asake has had a relatively quiet 2025 so far. Aside from the release of “Why Love” back in February, he hasn’t put out much else since the calendar flipped, perhaps still recovering ...

President Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of notorious former Chicago street gang leader Larry Hoover, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal prison. Hoover, 74, the co-founder of ...

Memphis rap pioneers were celebrated at the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. The concert paid tribute to the late Gangsta Boo, a prominent figure in Memphis rap. Memphis rap is enjoying a ...

William likes taking edibles, watching movies with his dogs, and then writing about those movies, because what else is there to do while the world burns? Gangsters have always made for popular film ...

"Those characters I played in 'Training Day,' in 'American Gangster' — it might look like they were close to me, and I could tell you they were, but I wasn’t no gangster," said Washington in a recent ...