So long as there is any diversity of voices in mass media, we will have something like a “culture war ... the details of the early 1990s “gangsta rap” scene. Conservative moral figures ...

“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were ... shift in sound and economic realities that catapulted hip-hop culture from the underground into the mainstream. As Jeff Chang explains ...

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship ... and often empowering mode of expression for a ...

Through Ruthless Records, Eazy-E introduced Dr. Dre and Ice Cube to a national audience, helping shape the sound and culture of West Coast hip-hop. Their vehicle? Gangsta rap. With raw lyrics and ...