The history of rap music, all things considered ... with "Rockafella" and "Can't Wait," but for our money, "Noorotic" is the ...

“Gangsta rap” songs like “Boyz-n-the-Hood” were hawked ... Art becomes mainstream when there’s money to be made, and soon corporations began targeting hip-hop’s underground economy ...

The Notorious B.I.G.

Rick Ross’ Teflon Don Best Rap Songs: Rick Ross and Styles P, "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"; Kanye West and Pusha T, "Runaway"; Eminem, “Not Afraid”; Drake, “Over”; Waka Flocka Flame ...

While Hot Rap Songs was originally conceived as a bi-weekly sales chart, the rapid popularity and interest in the genre forced a change to a weekly sales recap before the chart reached its first ...

Some believe that the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and ...