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 many might have heard of acts like the Insane Clown Posse and Flatlinerz, the name "horrorcore" doesn't always ring a bell right away. Horrorcore is a genre of rap first popularized in the ...

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 ...

Not two blocks before suburban East Oak Street intersects with Southeast 10 th Avenue to become TV Highway, a nondescript house the color of old newsprint is where Hillsboro's horrorcore rapper ...

In the past month, two seemingly unrelated violent homicides have been connected by one thread -- both defendants were fans of a music genre called "horrorcore." Horrorcore, rap music classified by ...

Since immigrating from Russia in 1992, Ivan Ovchinnikov — better known by his stage name, Scum — has grown into one of the best-selling horrorcore artists in the country, through relentless touring ...

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 ...

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 ...

“They’re masters of the craft. I could fill 30 lists with just Twiztid. ‘Murder, Murder, Murder’ is one of the earliest Twiztid songs. When we do horrorcore we dive into the character of a certain ...

Born Aaron Dontez Yates, Tech N9ne embarked on a journey with the eccentric at an early age. His mother, diagnosed with lupus, epilepsy and diabetes, sparked the Kansas City native’s search for God ...

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 ...