Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. We are currently in a moment of ...

Rapper Tupac Shakur’s lyrics against a politician who was on a crusade against rap music were opinion and thus protected ... Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One of the songs that ...

The Atlanta rapper, 27, tells me that the confidence displayed in her music was cultivated over time ... The song vies to add to the prevalence of women in rap pulling an Uno reverse on ...

Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship, ‘the most extensive music censorship campaign in ...

“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were ... until just a few corporations had a virtual monopoly over the music industry. Art becomes mainstream when there’s money to be made ...