The Phoenix Symphony will close out its season May 17 to 19 with a performance combining the music of Gustav Mahler, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Titled “The Resurrection Mixtape,” it’s the ...
Fans, friends and fellow artists throughout the Mid-South and across the world continue to mourn revered Memphis rapper Gangsta Boo. Born Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, Gangsta Boo died on Jan. 1 at the ...
Coolio, a West Coast hip-hop star known for melding gangsta rap and pop music into memorable hits such as “Gangsta’s Paradise,” died Wednesday at the age of 59. The rapper, whose real name was Artis ...
News of Gangsta Boo’s death over the weekend hit hard across rap, but it especially hit hard here at UPROXX. The Memphis rap godmother had put in an appearance at UPROXX Studios just weeks before to ...
When Ice Cube rapped “Fuck the police comin’ straight from the underground / A young nigga got it bad ’cause I’m brown / And ...
This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary.With the unfortunate death of beloved rapper Coolio, hip-hop lovers have been mourning ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yesterday (Jan. 1), the hip hop world was stunned to learn that Gangsta Boo, a true pioneer for southern rap and music as a whole, ...
On Friday (Sept. 20), Candace Owens hopped on X, formerly Twitter, and posted a weird theory on the creation of gangsta rap. The ultra-conservative pundit wrote: "Gangster rap was never black culture.