Lowriders are customized cars with the chassis lowered so that they narrowly clear the ground. ... In the late 1980s, gangster rap artists took perceptions of lowriders in a different direction.

Despite their origins, lowriders first entered wider public consciousness during the heyday of gangster rap, when the cars were featured in the music videos of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre ...

The lowrider capital of the world is Los Angeles, where the scene originated. Leno says that he is incredibly impressed with the level of detail and workmanship in these custom cars.

Despite their origins, lowriders first entered wider public consciousness during the heyday of gangster rap, when the cars were featured in the music videos of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre ...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on Friday that lifts the restrictions on lowrider cruising, a cultural and artistic tradition developed by ...

Lowrider culture and history goes back far beyond the West Coast gangster rap image most associate it with today. The roots date to the postwar years of the 1940s when returning Mexican-American ...

Lowrider culture originated in Southern California, ... Las Vegas artist Justin Favela remembers seeing lowriders on TV, predominantly representing gangster culture.

Some lowrider builders like to jump from project to project, ... GanGster BlackOwner: Odilio StationVehicle: '64 Chevrolet Impala SS convertibleCity/State: Henderson, ...

“Lowriders,” is a coming-of-age tale about a young street artist, played by Gabriel Chavarria (“East Los High”), straddling life between his father (a convincing Demian Bichir), who’s ...

The lowriders on hand were some of the best that the sport has to offer. The list included last year's Traditional winner, "Certified Gangster," a '64 Impala that rolled up from Miami to show what ...

The '39 decorated in the Gangster Squad motif when the flim-noir style movie by the same name came out in 2013. ... Most of us are at least vaguely aware of “lowriders.” ...