But now rappers are being asked to clean up their ... a leading US rap producer who is hosting the two-day meeting next month, wants artists to abandon songs about drugs and gangsters.

The history of rap music, all things considered, doesn't go back too far. The genre came out of New York in the late 1970s ...

Rod Studmire, also known by his rap ... of clean music. "They were like, 'Ah, we can't do that,' because that is what their society is," tells Studmire, "After they started doing the songs ...