“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were ... until just a few corporations had a virtual monopoly over the music industry. Art becomes mainstream when there’s money to be made ...

We’ve been spendin’ most their lives livin’ in the gangsta’s paradise ... Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and was nominated for several other major music awards.

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship, ‘the most extensive music censorship campaign in ...

Rap and hip-hop music are in the spotlight once again, especially after the Grammy Awards and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX ...