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Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip Hop was first given out at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.The award, according to MTV, was originally intended for hip hop-inspired songs, not necessarily actual hip hop music videos (which were instead honored by Best Rap Video).
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [67] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
On April 1, the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards were held. Drake won Hip-Hop Artist of the Year. Ice Spice won Best New Hip-Hop Artist. Lil Durk and J. Cole won Hip-Hop Song of the Year for "All My Life". Young Miko won Best New Latin Artist.
A video vixen (also referred to as a hip hop honey or video girl [2]) is a woman who models and appears in hip hop -oriented music videos. [3] [4] From the 1990s to the early 2010s, the video vixen image was a staple in popular music, particularly within the genre of hip hop. [5] The video vixen first came around in the late 1980s when the hip ...
African. Bongo Flava - from Tanzania. Boomba music - from Kenya. Genge - from Kenya. Hip hop galsen - from Senegal. Hipco - from Liberia. Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana. Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria. Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion.
Drill music. Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre. [ 2] Early drill artists are noted for their explicit, confrontational style of lyricism and association with crime in Chicago, especially the ...
Trillville and Lil Scrappy. The King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present: Trillville & Lil Scrappy. Warner Bros. Records, Black Market Records, Warner Records, Reprise Records. Young Gunz. Tough Luv. Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings. March 1. Noah23 & Jaffa Gate. Ancient Israelites Older Than Anorthosite.