From the era of L.A. gangster movies ... song went on to earn Smith a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance in 1998.

Here are the best tunes from the ’90s, picked by our editors. Happy nostalgic listening! No one before or since has done more to justify the gangsta rap lifestyle than Christopher Wallace ...

The ’90s were a bountiful time for new music: the explosion of genres like grunge, Britpop and gangsta rap, plus the emergence of underground scenes like shoegaze and neo-soul. But the decade ...

Gangsta music has been in the offing since the mid-80s, with the earliest pioneers said to be Schoolly D, Ice-T and N.W.A. In the early 90s, the sub ... B.I.G. “Gangsta rap is a form of artistic ...

On the morning of Sept. 6, hundreds of mourners gathered at The Cure Church in Kansas City, Kansas, to pay their final ...

NBC's Olympics primetime host Mike Tirico PEOPLE, "What really cut through for me was his connection with both the athletes ...

Snoop Dogg explained how working with Pharrell on the hit single "Beautiful" was a key milestone in the West Coast legend's ...

Snoop taps Pentagram to design the branding and packaging for a new line of bongs, and it's as irresistible as mid-'90s gangsta rap. Bono, Snoop Dogg, Olivia Wilde, Tom Brady, Scarlett Johansson ...

OPINION: A conversation rumbling in the hip-hop community is one of separation between the older generation’s music and that of the younger generation. It has merit.