Like all musical forms, no one person can definitively say they started or invented Memphis rap, though there are plenty of seminal figures who were crucial in the development of the genre, from DJ ...

THE RAP SHEETS say it all. They’ve got the body count and the prison cred, the bootlicking posses and the adoring wanna-bes. They drive luxurious cars and flash wads of cash. Gangsta rappers share a ...

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While Memphis rap continues to enjoy a renaissance thanks to a generation of new young lions — from NLE Choppa to Duke Deuce — the history of the city’s scene continues to be defined by the music of ...

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 ...

The post Gangsta Boo, Pioneering Figure in Southern Rap, Dead at 43 appeared first on Consequence. Gangsta Boo has died at the age of 43, according to Fox 13 Memphis. A pioneering figure in the ...

So here’s a reunion record actually worth getting behind: Da Mafia features every original member of Three 6 Mafia save for Juicy J (so DJ Paul, Crunchy Black, Koopsta Knicca, Lord Infamous, and ...

Those who see a relationship between the music people listen to and violent behavior usually take aim at two favorite targets — gangsta rap and death metal. In the Lehigh Valley area, neither type of ...

Italian politicians and culture figures criticized a private television channel Thursday and urged it to cancel the final episode of a series about a Mafia boss, because, they said, it portrayed the ...