With one of rock music’s most iconic power ballads, (I Just) Died In Your Arms, Cutting Crew topped the chart in several countries in 1986, including the US. As they prepare to celebrate their 40th ...

Also: Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace” and its sequel; the Broadway comedy “All In,” reviewed; the Philadelphia Orchestra’s study of ...

An ex-gang leader is filing to dismiss all the charges against him in the killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur ...

for dominance in a genre known at the time as “gangsta rap.” The motion alleges constitutional violations and lack of corroborating evidence against Davis. AP In interviews and a 2019 tell-all ...

Perhaps as young men’s lives become more passive and alienated, being a spectator to violence and death provides a frisson of ...

This year, three particularly foul-mouthed and insulting young rappers named “Lil Jeff,” “Lil Scoom,” and “Ybcdul” recorded a song together. All three had been killed before the end of ...

Long Beach’s Olympics ambassadeur. But Snoop Dogg the MC, the laconic voice who defined West Coast gangsta rap in the ’90s, never left us. On Friday, he’ll release “Missionary,” a much ...

Eight days after his review, Brown made his LinkedIn post discussing rap lyrics and violence in the Muslim world, which he claims was based on his lived experience of servicing as a Navy SEAL in Iraq.

By 1994, he was a controversial young rapper who had already left an indelible mark on the fledgling subgenre of gangsta rap and was about to undergo a trial for murder (he was acquitted).

The mixtape Ehhthang Ehhthang wasn’t even the biggest project Glo released this year, but it features some of her best songwriting, including “Opp Shit,” a gangsta rap twist on an old ...