Knowledge the Pirate counts himself as a member of the rapper Roc Marciano’s inner circle. Alongside KA, who we recently nominated as recording the best New York City rap album of the year, Knowledge ...

The Dipset rapper shared a cryptic Instagram Stories post with a severely bruised face. Yet astonishingly, according to the song’s producer, Rsonist (real name Gregory Green), it’s a miracle the ...

For fans and critics who intellectualize it, gangsta rap, or “reality rap,” is serious business. For them, the defining genre of West Coast hip-hop represents true stories from the ’hood as told by ...

Most of the artists features on Kenny Beats' YouTube series The Cave-- in which the producer and his guest build a song from scratch while casually kicking it in the studio -- are rappers. Mac DeMarco ...

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. Memphis rap is enjoying a ...

Gangster rap is a subgenre of American hip hop that highlights the culture and values typical of urban gangs and hustlers. S5: Know , just like San Diego's don't really have real supporters when it ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The term ...

Here is a fun video for all the Star Wars fans out there, the third video in the Star Wars Gangsta Rap series, and definitely the funniest so far, the Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles. MCs Vader, ...

The son of infamous Hell’s Kitchen gangster Eddie (The Butcher) Cummiskey was acquitted Tuesday of beating up a federal agent. Clifford Cummiskey had been accused of pummeling an off-duty State ...