Inge Osterhoff, a gangster rap scholar, called this drive for censorship, ‘the most extensive music censorship campaign in ...

The late 1990s boasted quite a bit of bubblegum pop music, and these three icons personified that era beautifully.

Brian May shares Queen’s liberal stance on the use of their music, except when it came to gangsta rap that promoted violence ...

The legendary Queen guitarist explained that the band refused to let an artist use one of their biggest tracks during the ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. We are currently in a moment of 2000s nostalgia. I suppose it was inevitable. After spending 20 years stuck ...

The Atlanta rapper, 27, tells me that the confidence displayed in her music was cultivated over time ... The song vies to add to the prevalence of women in rap pulling an Uno reverse on ...

Queen banned "gangster rap" artists from sampling their back catalogue ... Elsewhere in the interview, Brian spoke about the legacy of Queen's music. Brian was initially not a fan of the group's ...

Rapper Tupac Shakur’s lyrics against a politician who was on a crusade against rap music were opinion and thus protected from defamation claims ... Tucker had led a crusade against “gangsta rap.” One ...