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 ... As Jeff Chang explains in Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, the 1990s saw the American media landscape shrink until just a few corporations ...

“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.

Queen's tracks have been sampled by a number of big names over the years, including rappers, Eminem and Ice Cube, who used the drum beat from We Will Rock You. However, Brian said there was one ...