1.   According to several executives, Morris also pushed Warner to buy an equity stake in another gangsta rap label, Priority.

2.   By selling its share of Interscope, a gangsta rap label, Time Warner hopes this week to avoid further controversy.

3.   If you do know who Al Gore is, you may not know that Simmons was one of the founders of Def Jam Records, the rap music label.

4.   James Murdoch dropped out of Harvard a few years ago to start Rawcus Entertainment, a rap music label.

5.   Newly vigilant about its public image, Time Warner recently reversed field and sold its stake in a rap record label.

6.   Nobody gets in the holiday spirit like a rap label.

7.   That there would even be such thing as a Christian gangsta rap record label.

8.   The company initially ignored the criticism but eventually it capitulated and in September sold off its rap label, Interscope Records.

9.   These increases can be attributed primarily to a distribution deal with the phenomenally successful No Limit Records, the Louisiana-based rap label run by Master P.

10.   This year Turner has been making deals to distribute other regional rap labels, including Duck Down in New York, home to the rising rap act Heltah Skeltah.