What has kept hip-hop fresh for almost 40 years are the constant innovations from various regional sub-genres. But for some reason there's always been a challenge with properly tracking the dark ...

FARMVILLE, Va. (CBS/AP) Sam "Syko Sam" McCroskey, who aspired to being a "horrorcore" rapper, pleaded guilty Monday to killing four people in central Virginia and was sentenced to life in prison.

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 ...

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 ...

When somebody bathes in blood and guts, swings from hanging bodies or sews together dismembered parts — that’s horror. And so naturally when rappers embody this realm, it’s called horrorcore. But true ...

When horrorcore killer Richard 'Sam' McCroskey performed songs like "Murderous Rage,'' and "Evil Voices,'' it sounded like the work of a disturbed kid aiming for shock value. With his standard issue ...

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 ...

AllHipHop: It seems in the 90’s horrorcore music hit the scene with Flatliner and Gravediggaz and artists like Ganxta NIP and slowly developed into its own culture how have you seen it grow over the ...

When the tow-truck driver had finished pulling the car out of the ditch and onto a wrecker, he offered the 20-year-old driver a ride. As the two men made small talk, the truck driver was almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born Aaron Dontez Yates, Tech N9ne embarked on a journey with the eccentric at an early age. His mother, diagnosed with lupus, ...

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 ...