While genres like J-Pop, city pop and hardcore punk get all the attention, Japanese rap is a hidden gem. It might be fast and ...

(The picture is not yet streaming on the Criterion Channel.) Mr. Shinoda may be familiar to fans of Japanese gangster movies thanks to his groundbreaking “Pale Flower” (1964). He may be even ...

Gangster rap pioneer Ice T called 50 “the last gangster ... That’s why after Von’s death, Durk’s lyrics have left a trail of damning hints at retaliation that may find their way into ...

On the night of Oct. 16, 2001, Corporal Michael Douglas Beverly was standing in front of his unmarked police car when he was gunned down. Officers who rushed to the scene found the 11-year veteran ...

On Sept. 5, the boy and a classmate sent emails back and forth containing lyrics from the YNW Melly song “Murder on My Mind,” which references guns and violence, according to court documents.

Wretch 32 caused fury today after claiming Chris Kaba was 'assassinated' and 'executed' by an officer, adding that the police are 'good at villainising a person'. The rapper, real name Jermaine ...

A great irony, it certainly is. Just a little over three kilometres -- 3.3 kilometres, to be exact -- from the Ashram where the greatest Indian of modern times (Mahatma Gandhi) lived stays India's ...

A fifth-grader has been expelled from one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious private schools for sending a friend a squirt gun emoji and rap lyrics, prompting a lawsuit from the boy’s parents.

gangster) to the small screen. The first outing of the 21 million-selling Like A Dragon series – like all of the 22 sequels, spin-offs and remakes – was based on Japanese yakuza films ...

Obama then launched into the opening verse from one of the star’s best-known songs, “Lose Yourself,” from the 2002 film “8 Mile” — adapting the lyrics so they were in the first-person.

"But I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem." And that's when he began to quote a variation of the lyrics to the rapper's 2002 hit "Lose Yourself." "Now I notice my palms are sweaty ...