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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.
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 ...
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 ...
N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, [5] [6] eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California.Among the earliest and most significant figures of the gangsta rap subgenre, the group is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential acts in hip hop music.
The term golden age hip hop frames the late 1980s in mainstream hip hop, [20] said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence, [21] and associated with Public Enemy, KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, [22] [23] De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers [24 ...
Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [ 1 ] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles.
O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer.His lyrics on N.W.A's 1989 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity, [3] [4] [5] and his political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were all critically and commercially ...
Gangsta rap helped develop the idea of a "larger-than-life" persona, sometimes to a comedic extreme; however, reading braggadocio literally and seeing it as integral to rap may suppress vulnerability, i.e. an artist's ability to connect emotionally. [5]