The Game is halfway recovered from his birthday bash over the weekend, but he's ready to rap 'n roll with his upcoming DJ ...

*“He represents the real Godfather of Harlem,” said documentary director Legs McNeil (The Uncensored Oral History of Punk) about his new documentary “Pusherman ...

The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon’s War of Drugs. The goal was to “associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin” ...

To mark 30 years of “Gangsta’s Paradise,” we spoke with some of the key figures behind the song and those who witnessed firsthand how it transformed Coolio’s life and legacy, including producer Doug ...

Queen banned "gangster rap" artists from sampling their back catalogue amid fears it would "promote violence or abuse". Sir Brian May says the British rock band took a stance to say no to certain ...

Before he was Coolio, Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was just a kid growing up in Compton and South Central Los Angeles, at a time when middle class hope gave way to something very different. “Compton was ...