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Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality of the world and street hustlers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Emerging in the late 1980s, gangsta rap's pioneers include Schoolly D of Philadelphia and Ice-T of Los Angeles, later expanding in ...
With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles. [1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap ...
All Music Guide to Hip-hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-759-5. Talevski, Nick (2006). Rock Obituaries – Knocking on Heaven's Door. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-8460-9091-2.
2nd II None is a rap group from Compton, California. It consists of cousins KK (born Kelton L. McDonald) and Gangsta D (born Deon Barnett). They were members of the Elm Street Piru Gang. [1] They are most famous for their 1999 release ‘Up ‘n da Club'.
DJ Quik, Michel'le, N.W.A, Compton, West Coast Rap, and Gangsta Rap: East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry [61] May 1, 1991 "Pop Goes the Weasel" 3rd Bass: Vanilla Ice [62] Aug 13, 1991 "Word to the Badd!!" Jermaine Jackson: Michael Jackson: The song was changed for the album [63] Sep 17, 1991 "Get in the Ring" Guns N' Roses: Music critics.
W. Wanted Dead or Alive (Tupac Shakur and Snoop Doggy Dogg song) The Watcher (song) We on Fire; Welcome 2 Detroit (song) Welcome to My Hood; Westside Story (song)
The style is mainly underground and yet not well documented by the media, but is viewed as an answer to the increased boldness of the favelas drugs lords who, from the beginning of the 2000s are playing even more anti-police gangsta rap as a provocation to the rival milicianos (a miliciano is a member of a milícia or an armed band of vigilantes).
B. B-Legit; B-Tight; B.G. Knocc Out; Baby Bash; Bad Azz (rapper) Boosie Badazz; Fredo Bang; Ant Banks; Lloyd Banks; BeatKing; Benny the Butcher; B.G. (rapper) Big Ed ...