It was an incredibly raw time in the music industry ... the world to G-funk — a subgenre of gangsta rap, which became very popular in the ‘90s — and solidified Dre's status as a hip-hop ...

During that era, rap music gained more attention from mainstream ... From Camp Lo to Coolio, here's a list of oft-forgotten hip-hop gems of the '90s that deserve a lot more rotation.

Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who ...