(AllHipHop News) Today (March 26), marks the 18 year anniversary of the passing of iconic Compton, California rapper Eric “Eazy-E” Wright. Known by many as the “Godfather of Gangsta Rap,” Eazy-E ...

Little did anyone know that the upstart indie would put West Coast and gangsta rap on the map. By Gail Mitchell, Billboard, The Associated Press Let’s hitch a ride on the music time machine back to ...

For Eazy-E, the concept of gangsta rap was fully formed in his mind. By 1986, the genre, which nobody then called “gang­sta rap” (“reality rap,” please) had begun to sprout in L.A. by way of Ice-T's ...

Late N.W.A frontman and Ruthless Records head Eric “Eazy-E” Wright may be known as a godfather of gangsta rap, but he was also a compassionate man, as depicted in the biopic Straight Outta Compton ...

Toker of 90’s gangster rap group Brownside has passed away. He was 51. Toker, whose real name was Gilbert Izquierdo, helped create and pioneer the West Coast Chicano sound of Hip Hop in the mid-90s ...