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August 25, 2008
Rapper Dr. Dre's Son Dead at 20
The Los Angeles County Coroner reported today that the son of hip hop record producer and rapper Dr. Dre has died. Andre Young Jr. was found dead at his home in Woodland Hills on Saturday morning. Young was out the previous night and returned home around 5:30 A.M., according to Assistant Chief Ed W ... More >>
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October 8, 2008
The B-Sides: Bishop Lamont Interview
Q: What was it like for you growing up in Los Angeles during the 80s? A: It was the LA of the Reagan administration. Drugs were really heavy in the streets at that time…more crack addicts…crack babies. It was a good time simultaneously because there was more creativity within the music and it ... More >>
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November 21, 2008
Question in the Form of an Answer: An Interview with Chef Raekwon
No introduction necessary. Q: So what brings you out to LA? A: Just business brought me out here. I have an office set up out here and we’re just out here networking and keeping our minds at peace and just working on the album, staying in the studio. I’m doing a lot of things—dealing wit ... More >>
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January 2, 2009
Coroner: Dr. Dre's Son OD'ed on Heroin and Morphine
The Los Angeles County Coroner reported today that the son of hip hop record producer and rapper Dr. Dre died from an overdose of heroin and morphine. The drug tests had been pending for more than four months. The coroner's office wouldn't explain why it took so long for the report to be released -- ... More >>
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September 11, 2008
Arabian Prince: A Jheri Blossoms
Electro pioneer who quit N.W.A weeks before Compton now makes beats for Grand Theft Auto
Music
September 25, 2008
Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?
Four on the floor
Music
March 31, 2005
To Be Real
Is The Game playing for keeps?
News
June 9, 2005
The Mad Science of Fredwreck
Snoop, Xzibit and Dr. Dre all praise the Palestinian-American freak of beats
Music
January 3, 2008
Record Reviews: Jonny Greenwood, Bishop Lamont, Melchior Productions
Blood soundtrack, Caltroit mixtape and No Disco Future
Music
December 6, 2007
N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow
Two decades later, Straight Outta Compton is as vital � and brutal � as ever
Music
November 29, 2007
N.W.A: A Hard Act to Follow
Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)
Music
August 10, 2006
Revenge of the N.E.R.D.
Pharrell�s long-delayed solo debut, In My Mind, is not completely horrible
News
June 29, 2006
Moment of Truce
After a five-year war, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound reunite for love, profits and West Coast pride. Ben Qui�ones catches the buzz.
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February 3, 2005
California Love
The Game and Daz bring gangsta back where it belongs
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December 11, 2003
Eazy Does It
Gangsta rap hits L.A.
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May 15, 2003
The Undeath of West Coast Flow
Gangsta rap hits L.A.
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December 2, 1999
Still D.R.E.
Gangsta rap hits L.A.
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September 2, 1999
Cubanismo, L.A.-Style
Gangsta rap hits L.A.
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December 3, 2007
Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?
I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and ill to get off the phonetics that you were dropping. Your lines had to be crisp. Other cats don’t come from that school. It took me studying R ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
Headphones Spokesperson Dr. Dre Wears Red Sox Costume, Alleges He's Produced a New Track With Jay-Z
Headphone spokesperson Dr. Dre, who once used to be a brilliant, innovative, game-changing hip hop producer, was recently in New York promoting headphones. Said headphones are branded with the Boston Red Sox logo, which could be pretty profitable since there's a large number of people who enjoy spe ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
How to Blow Your Career and Alienate Your Family, featuring Scott Storch
Illustration by Jason SeilerOur sibling publication Miami New Times just published a long article about hip hop/pop producer (and LA resident) Scott Storch. Writer Gus Garcia-Roberts tried to interview Storch for this account of the spiral into drug-addiction and debt that destroyed his once- ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Whatever Happened to N.W.A's Posse?
The Eazy-E True Hollywood (or True Compton) Stories behind the legendary L.A. hip-hop cover
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May 11, 2010
Where Are They Now: N.W.A and the Posse Edition
Graffiti, plain jeans and black ball caps, prop malt liquor bottles, and the hilariously understated warning "SOME SONGS CONTAIN EXPLICIT LYRICS": N.W.A's album cover for N.W.A. and the Posse is much more than the sum of its parts. In fact, Martin Cizmar, who wrote last week's story about th ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
Mo' BET-ta Booze? Eminem and Dre, Prince and Monae at ASCAP's Rhythm & Soul Awards
Diddy was at Les Deux (and Playboy Mansion's Kandyland). Interscope held a velvet-roper at Playhouse. Will.i.am did his Dipdive at My Studio. And there was a mysterious Prince after-party and 3 a.m. jam session... somewhere. It seemed everyone hosted a shindig of some sort around the BET Awards. ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?
Diddy was at Les Deux (and Playboy Mansion's Kandyland). Interscope held a velvet-roper at Playhouse. Will.i.am did his Dipdive at My Studio. And there was a mysterious Prince after-party and 3 a.m. jam session... somewhere. It seemed everyone hosted a shindig of some sort around the BET Awards. ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Brand New Dr. Dre Track Leaks: "Turn Me On"
By now it's become a commonplace to say that Dr. Dre's third album Detox is hip-hop's Chinese Democracy (hopefully we'll all get some free Dr. Pepper when it finally comes out...). So anytime Dre stops his busy schedule of guest-productions, headphone peddling, claiming he's making an instru ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Dr. Dre Discusses Leaked First Single From "Detox," 'Kush,' Ft. Snoop Dogg and Akon
"Detox" is almost out of surgery The road to sobriety is long, arduous, and full of setbacks. No wonder Dr. Dre's highly anticipated third album, Detox, is ten years into the process, and has yet to come clean. But naysayers who'd given up on Detox as an empty promise can stop shaking thei ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg (featuring Akon): New Video for Dre's Single "Kush" Just Released
Red-letter day in Cali hip-hop: Dr. Dre has just released the new video for the much-awaited single from his upcoming album Detox: "Kush," featuring the most likable man in the game, Snoop Dogg, and hook-provider Akon. This is the song that answers the question "Why does Snoop smoke so much w ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Dr. Dre vs. The Hippies: Did Dre Try to Make Money Out of Burning Man?
Fader magazine and a mysterious Tumblr misleadingly called drdrestartedburningman.tumblr.com are currently pimping a pseudo meme called "Dr. Dre Started Burning Man." Of course Dr. Dre did not start Burning Man--a bunch of hippies did. But Fader and the Tumblr site have posted a 1995 letter a ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
And Unicorns Exist, Too: Dr. Dre to Debut New Detox Single, "Die Hard," Tonight
The latest single from the album that lives in our imaginations, "Die Hard," featuring Eminem, will premiere on the finale of Showtime's Fight Camp 360 - Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley tonight at 7PM PST on Showtime and 11AM PST Saturday May 7, on CBS. From a press release that just landed ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Cuteness Overload: Video of Dr. Dre As an Adorable, Precocious Child! (aka Ain't Nuthin' But A G-Rated Thang)
This one was discovered a while back but just like the still hilarious glammed-out photo from his World Class Wreckin' Cru days, it's still relevant. Dr. Dre wasn't always a multi-jillionaire music industry mastermind. Just like you and us, he was once an adorable wittle kid. The differen ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Dr. Dre Raps on Game's The R.E.D. Album, But Do We Care?
Confidence is key, as Compton rapper Game knows. Like our sister paper Village Voice said last week, Game (we hate that he dropped the "The") is "the ultimate company man ... he has kept admirably cool while the years pass by; instead, when asked about the delays in interviews, he responds w ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Laughing My Fucking Ass Off: Top Five Drastic Rapper Image Changes
The buzz around professional party-circuit players LMFAO's second album, Sorry For Party Rocking, is still going strong. The group's success has largely involved cultivating a public image resembling an extreme version of the most ridiculous hipster archetype. But it didn't always used to b ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
Legendary Ghostwriter D.O.C. Is Back, But Can He Save Detox?
The buzz around professional party-circuit players LMFAO's second album, Sorry For Party Rocking, is still going strong. The group's success has largely involved cultivating a public image resembling an extreme version of the most ridiculous hipster archetype. But it didn't always used to b ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
D.O.C.'s Top Five D.O.C. Ghostwritten Songs
Brandon ShowersIn the paper this week I get inside the head of D.O.C., who ghostewrote the bulk of the early Ruthless Records catalog and is all over The Chronic and Doggystyle. His own solo career was ascendent on the strength of his platinum debut No One Can Do It Better before a car accide ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Top Five Moments from The Game's Hoodmorning (No Typo)
On his new mixtape, Hoodmorning (No Typo), Game insults his haters' geographical acumen. "I'm in Cannes, France," he barks. "You don't know where that shit is." This might not be the strongest diss ever, but there's much to like on the tape; his voice is plaintively expressive, and he has an ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Interview With The Guy Who Ranks Rich Rappers For Forbes; Dre and Snoop Are On The New List, But What About Black Eyed Peas?
Zack O'Malley Greenburg is the Forbes writer who puts together the magazine's annual "Cash Kings" list, which estimates the earnings of the wealthiest rappers of the past year and ranks the top 20. Their newest version came out yesterday; Jay-Z topped the list with $37 million, and L.A. is ... More >>
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August 25, 2011
Compton Rapper Game Returns to an Industry That's Gone Soft
Will his old tricks still work?
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September 22, 2011
Afrika Bambaataa Plays Tomorrow, Inspires Our Top Five Electro Anthems Of All Time
Afrika BambaataaAlong with Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa is a card-carrying member of hip-hop's holy trinity. Back in the genre's baby years, Bam helped bring competing Bronx streets gangs together in the name of musical unity, and cut the seminal electro track, 1982's "Pl ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 20-16
Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party waits for no man. So while we watched the tubes for Detox, Los ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
There's Three Of Us, But We're Not The Beatles: The Ten Most Illogical Rap Lyrics In History
Wait, where's Ringo?By Chaz Kangas "No one ever climbs a ladder alone," said Bill Clinton at his Hollywood Bowl fete on Saturday. This makes not a lick of sense. But perhaps he was just taking cues from the world of hip-hop, which is famous for its wildly inaccurate and illogical statements. ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 15-11
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 10-6
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. 10. Freesty ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 5-1
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. 5. The Phar ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List
Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list ... More >>
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November 7, 2011
Remember Our Top 20 L.A. Rap Albums? Here Are The Worst Records By Those Artists
[Editor's note: Haterade Monday continues! Earlier in the day we told brought you the five dopiest Beach Boys songs (including one where Brian Wilson raps). And now, on the heels of our top 20 greatest L.A. rap albums of all time here's some more drivel from classic artists.] Hip-hop doesn' ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Slim the Mobster Has An Amazing House
Slim the MobsterSlim the Mobster and I are scheduled to do an interview at a Northridge gun range, set up by his publicist. But as the rapper pulls up and peers out from under his black Dodgers baseball hat, he looks hesitant. "I don't want my picture taken with a gun, you feel me?" he says ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss' Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes
Nanette Gonzales [Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
World Famous V.I.P. Records Officially Closes
c/o Kelvin AndersonOwner Kelvin Anderson Sr. with Craig Mack, left, and Notorious B.I.G., rightFor this week's feature story, we wrote about the impending demise of World Famous V.I.P. Records in Long Beach, which once boasted a dozen branches and was instrumental in the rise of West Coast hi ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Dr. Dre Tribute Album: We Tear It A New One
Now I need a doctorSeeing as Detox still shows no signs of life -- seriously, another couple years of this and we're going to get angry -- what's a real G supposed to do? For that matter, what are we supposed to do? Well, there certainly is plenty of prime Dr. Dre material ripe for re-purpo ... More >>
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