compton's most wanted

Who doesn't like a little bit of hardcore rap from time to time? XXL highlights 50 of the most violent lyrics we've come across throughout the years.

Early gangsta rap from the 1990s.

Classic West Coast sh*t.

On this day, July 16, in hip-hop history...

MC Eiht had been relatively quiet in the hip-hop world since the mid-2000s, when the Compton's Most Wanted rapper began slowing down his output after more than a decade of putting out some of the West Coast's toughest gangsta rap. But he flew back into the public consciousness—and the ears of a new generation of listeners—with his verse on "m...