If you're familiar with Kendrick Lamar’s music, you can easily hear the influence of West Coast hip-hop in his songs. Last month, the Compton rapper penned a tribute to his idol, the late rapper Tupac ...

The N.W.A rapper welcomed a number of sons and daughters before his death in 1995 Al Pereira/Getty and Frazer Harrison/Getty Eazy-E was one of the biggest rappers in American music history, but he ...

Alonzo Williams, left, and Eric Darnell Wright Jr., the son of the late rapper Eazy-E who goes by Lil Eazy-E, celebrate the renaming of Towne Center Drive in Compton as "Eazy Street" on Wednesday.

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