Gangsta rap is the most controversial style of the rap music genre. It has achieved global prominence through its vivid sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic lyrics, as well as its violent depiction of urban ghetto life in America. Gangsta rap has also...

For the Ice T album, see Gangsta Rap (album). Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip-hop music which developed during the late 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a corruption of the spelling of 'gangster'. After the popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, gangsta rap...

THOSE WHO take on popular culture need a strong stomach and a spine of steel. That's because it's easy to label critics of destructive cultural trends as prudes or enemies of free speech. Some who rightly criticize the coarsening of the culture legitimize these...

Ursula V. Battle Baltimore Afro-American 12-02-1995 About Gangsta Rap. The few things about gangsta rap that just about everyone agrees on are that much of it contains the graphic, and often vulgar language of the street; it constantly extols violence as a...

The half-hour program, which airs on Saturdays at 12:30 pm, drew stimulus from a 2003 MTV Video Music Award appearance by the west coast rapper donning the red carpet with two black women tethered to animal restraints. Recently, critics chided the music station for airing...

Two New Jersey brothers sacked from their grocery jobs for filming a gangsta rap parody at the store now face a defamation lawsuit from their former employer.A&P claims the video by Mark and Matthew D'Avella motivated at least one "disgusted and distressed" customer to boycott...