A 17-year-old gang banger from the Bronx who’s been arrested 20 times is the poster child for all that is wrong with the ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Guns, drugs and stacks of cash. Channel 2's Cobb County bureau chief Chris Jose learned that social media and "gangster rap" videos led investigators to some of metro Atlanta's most ...

Gambrills native, Soren Baker, recently published his 15 th and most extensive book to date, “The History of Gangster Rap.” While many people are turned off by the violence, profanity and crime ...

Leonard Pitts is one of my favorite journalists, a foot soldier in print, but I found it difficult to reconcile this with his take on rap music, specifically the “gangsta” rap artists and their ...

When up-and-coming rapper Lil Scrappy performed in Kalamazoo recently, he asked the women in the audience to join him onstage. Not only did adult females come forward to dance with the Atlanta ...

Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary is a comedic documentary film that centers around a rap group attempting to make a comeback as they look to attain the success of their heyday. Here’s how you can watch ...

Guns are recurring characters in American life. They sit front and center in some versions of rap music, whether to be glorified or denounced (Nas’ “I Gave You Power” comes to mind). They play key ...

I have no fondness for rap, but I thought the article on N.W.A might be interesting reading nonetheless (“Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics,” by Terry McDermott, April 14). Once I read it, the only ...

Kobe Bryant was a true renaissance man. Not only was he one of the greatest basketball players of all time, but he was also well-versed in the arts. He may have even had a rap career if a certain ...