The 1990s is often referred to as the golden age of hip-hop. During that era, rap music gained more attention from mainstream audiences, regional music such as East Coast vs. West Coast was ...

New York entered the ’90s with an emphasis on dusty sample-based beats and gritty realism. California threw its hat in the ring with hardcore gangsta rap before turning the BPM way down and the ...

Coolio won the Best Rap Solo Performance award for "Gangsta's Paradise ... Angeles-based group WC and the Maad Circle in the early '90s, along with WC, Big Gee and DJ Crazy Toones.

Hell hath no fury like a musician scorned! Join us as we explore the most savage musical takedowns from the decade that gave us grunge, gangsta rap, and girl power. From bitter breakup anthems to ...

To '90s babies, khakis, Chuck Taylors, old-school Chevys and smoking on "hydrochronic" felt like anachronisms from their parents' time. No one called it "gangsta rap." The voice of the latest ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over” premieres Sunday, January 1, at 9 p.m. ET exclusively on CNN. Gangsta rap dominated the music scene in the ’90s, and then ...

At one point, he was the biggest rap star on the planet, with his series of singles in the ’90s reaching a level of ubiquity few ever achieve, most notably the LV-assisted “Gangsta’s Paradis ...

He then became a household name after his chart-topping single "Gangsta's Paradise." The song helped him capture a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1996 and was a featured track in the ...