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

Bottom line: Few groups in the history of music have changed the landscape of popular culture like N.W.A., which turned ...

The late 1990s boasted quite a bit of bubblegum pop music, and these three icons personified that era beautifully.

Queen star, Sir Brian May, has admitted he refused to let a famous rapper sample one of his band's iconic tracks because 'it ...

Rap legend Snoop Dogg is embracing his spiritual roots with a new gospel album dropping this month that honors his late mother's legacy.

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. We are currently in a moment of 2000s nostalgia. I suppose it was inevitable. After spending 20 years stuck ...

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

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

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 ...