Reuters - It was a match made in Heav -- well, let's just say an ideal match -- when the nascent gangsta rap scene discovered NFL bad boys the Los Angeles Raiders in the early 1980s. Pirate imagery, black hats, and rule-breaking athletes captured the imagination of kids on Compton's violent streets, who wore Raiders gear on MTV and turned the te...

AP - When the groundbreaking hip-hop group N.W.A. was forming in the mid-1980s, they didn't care much for the colorful Troop suits then being worn by rappers such as LL Cool J.

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New Line is developing Straight Outta Compton, a movie about controversial rap group N.W.A. EW reports that the film's producers (among them Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E's widow Tomica Wright) are "actively searching for a director along the lines of Curtis Hanson (8 Mile)." Which is exciting news, but whatever happened to Welcome Back, Biatch?...

Stuck between a best-of and a remix collection (featuring appearances by Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Clipse, Raekwon, and Ice Cube), GhostDeini the Great undercuts the strengths that would've been present in a disc devoted to one format or the other.read more