Brian May shares Queen’s liberal stance on the use of their music, except when it came to gangsta rap that promoted violence ...

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A recent, and largely well-done, HBO documentary on the parallel careers of music producer Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre was noticeably squeamish about the details of the early 1990s “gangsta rap ...

Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One of the songs that referred to Tucker, “How Do U Want It,” says, “Delores Tucker, yous a muthafucka, instead of trying to help a nigga you destroy a ...

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The legendary Queen guitarist explained that the band refused to let an artist use one of their biggest tracks during the ...

“We have stopped them being used to promote violence or abuse, during the heyday of gangster rap when someone wanted to sample it in a song, we thought was abusive to women,” he said.