Dr. Dre

Remembering Napster

Action Bronson: I Can't See Myself Wearing a Skirt or a Wig

One of hip-hop's do-no-wrong stories of 2012, Albanian Queens-native Action Bronson put out Blue Chips for free and followed it up with Rare Chandeliers last year. He signed to Vice Records and made countless critics' year-end lists flowing unpretentiously on typical rap fare (girls, chronic, hooker ... More >>

Everybody's a Critic: Readers Respond to Our Food, Movie and Music Critics

One of hip-hop's do-no-wrong stories of 2012, Albanian Queens-native Action Bronson put out Blue Chips for free and followed it up with Rare Chandeliers last year. He signed to Vice Records and made countless critics' year-end lists flowing unpretentiously on typical rap fare (girls, chronic, hooker ... More >>

How's That "Millennium of Aftermath" Going?

See also: *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House *The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 Thus Far It was November of 1999 and we were on the cusp of the millennium when Dr. Dre famously proclaimed that the next one thousand years would be "the millennium of Aftermath," on the song "Forgot A ... More >>

KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days

See also: *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House *The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 Thus Far It was November of 1999 and we were on the cusp of the millennium when Dr. Dre famously proclaimed that the next one thousand years would be "the millennium of Aftermath," on the song "Forgot A ... More >>

Here's an Epic Ice-T Interview: Sure, He Once Wore Leather and Spikes, but He'll Still Fuck You Up

See also: *The Original Original Gangsta: Ice-T talks about his star-studded directorial debut, his famous affiliates and his life with Coco in New York *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House Perhaps because he moved back to the East Coast and became an actor, Ice-T is sometimes over ... More >>

Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House

See also: The Original Original Gangsta: Ice-T talks about his star-studded directorial debut, his famous affiliates and his life with Coco in New York Ice-T's ambitious documentary Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap comes out today, and in honor of the occasion we spoke with him for our music ... More >>

The Original Original Gangsta

Ice-T talks about his star-studded directorial debut, his famous affiliates and his life with Coco in New York

Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop

Hip-hop is nearly 40, but many still find this slightly-disorienting world of beats, rhymes and oversize personalities a bit daunting. So consider this our hip-hop Cliff's notes; here are the albums you should know about if you don't want to look silly at cocktail parties. We're not saying these a ... More >>

Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 22

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

Dr. Dre Tribute Album: We Tear It A New One

Now I need a doctor​Seeing 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 >>

Slim the Mobster Has An Amazing House

Slim the Mobster​Slim 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Afrika Bambaataa Plays Tomorrow, Inspires Our Top Five Electro Anthems Of All Time

Afrika Bambaataa​Along 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 >>

Compton Rapper Game Returns to an Industry That's Gone Soft

Will his old tricks still work?

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 >>

D.O.C.'s Top Five D.O.C. Ghostwritten Songs

Brandon Showers​In 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 >>

Legendary Ghostwriter D.O.C. Is Back, But Can He Save Detox?

Brandon Showers​In 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?

Four on the floor

Arabian Prince: A Jheri Blossoms

Electro pioneer who quit N.W.A weeks before Compton now makes beats for Grand Theft Auto

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 >>

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 >>

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)

Revenge of the N.E.R.D.

Pharrell’s long-delayed solo debut, In My Mind, is not completely horrible

Moment of Truce

After a five-year war, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound reunite for love, profits and West Coast pride. Ben Quiñones catches the buzz.

The Mad Science of Fredwreck

Snoop, Xzibit and Dr. Dre all praise the Palestinian-American freak of beats

To Be Real

Is The Game playing for keeps?

California Love

The Game and Daz bring gangsta back where it belongs

Eazy Does It

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

The Undeath of West Coast Flow

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

Still D.R.E.

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

Cubanismo, L.A.-Style

Gangsta rap hits L.A.