50 Cent Photo: Getty Images Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times. 50 Cent is the last great gangsta rapper. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of current MCs who are great gangsta rappers, but none ...

Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, the Memphis rapper and former member of Three 6 Mafia who, as Gangsta Boo, helped define Southern rap with her confident flows and forged a path for other female artists ...

Gangsta Boo, a rapper and former member of hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, died on Sunday, her representative confirmed to Variety. She was 43. According to the Memphis Police Department, officers ...

Gangsta Boo, rap pioneer and former member of Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, has died. She was 43. Gangsta Boo’s representative confirmed news of her death to Variety.No cause was given.

As a banner with Gangsta Boo’s image was unfurled on the stage, the various rappers, including La Chat, took turns performing some of the tracks she was associated with, before leading the crowd ...

Coolio, the rapper whose playful and sometimes gritty takes on West Coast rap and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” made him a hip-hop star in the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

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.

That “gangsta” persona would follow him when he first found fame in 1992 as the guest rapper on producer and NWA member Dr. Dre’s debut solo single “Deep Cover,” for the movie of the ...

The fans wanted gangsta rap and that’s what they got. The Feds didn’t write none of my sh*t. I’m a real MC,” Cube said to the Twitter user in this quoted reply.

Whether that prohibits him from ever being taken as seriously as gangsta rap pioneers like Dr. Dre, Ice-T, or NWA – rappers who imbued their personas and music with authenticity and unapologetic ...

Gangsta Boo, the pioneering female rapper who got her start as a teenager in Three 6 Mafia, has died at age 43.. The hip-hop star (real name Lola Mitchell) died Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee, reps ...