While horrorcore artists like Gravediggaz have all but disappeared, many of the characteristics of the sub-genre carry-on albeit with less fanfare. These haunting words, from Wu-Tang affiliate Shabazz ...

Although he was immersed in a music scene driven by murderous images, the Castro Valley rapper suspected of killing his girlfriend and three others in a Virginia town was a quiet, insecure young man ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Many popular movie directors got their start in horror films: J.J. Abrams, Guillermo del Toro and ...

In the early morning of Sunday, Oct. 4, four teenagers allegedly entered a randomly chosen home in New Hampshire, and attacked the sleeping occupants with a machete and a knife. Kimberly Cates, 42, ...

IT’S HARDER than death metal. More explicit than gangsta rap. Its lyrics routinely — and graphically — detail murder, rape and kidnapping. And it’s incredibly popular with some listeners. It’s called ...

While hip-hop is a worldwide multi-billion dollar industry at this point, a big part of what’s kept rap music so fresh and vibrant for almost 40 years now is the constant innovations coming from its ...

As the creator of Horrorcore, Ganxsta NIP could be the weirdest, confounding rapper in Hip-Hop history. With 1991’s Southpark Psycho, the Houston-reared MC invented the violent, disgusting subgenre of ...

Following on the heels of gangsta rap, hip-hop sub-genre horrorcore arrived towards the end of ’80s. Pushing creativity to the extreme by combining hardcore rap with sinister, horror film-inspired ...