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May 16, 2012
Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced
See also: Our review of Rock the Bells 2011 Last night Guerilla Union announced this year's Rock the Bells 2012 dates, headliners and lineup. Beginning in 2010, the hip-hop festival's headliners -- famous acts whose first few albums often outshine their later work -- have performed their classic ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Toni Monroe Is a Big Beautiful Rapper
See also: Top Ten Sexiest Fat Chicks in Music Toni Monroe is beautiful. She has a powerful stage presence, and doesn't need a hype man. But yet, she's something of a hard sell. For one thing, she's white. For another, as her press release says, she is rap's "biggest" new artist -- a reference to he ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Ice Cube - KDAY Krush Groove - April 28, 2012
Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Mystikal and others KDAY Krush Groove Gibson Amphitheater April 28, 2012 An invitation to Ice Cube's gangsta nation is tough to decline, even for those on the right side of the law. Which is why at one point during the Krush Groove hip-hop concert on Saturday a yellow-shirte ... More >>
Music
April 26, 2012
Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White
Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others
Blogs
January 11, 2012
Blue Ivy Carter: Top Five Worst Examples of Rap Nepotism
Barely two days after his and Beyonce's baby Blue Ivy Carter was born, Jay-Z put her on a song. "Glory" is a tribute to his new daughter, who closes the track out with a guest feature -- crying. Jay-Z may be starting his kid off young, but nepotism is standard practice among rap superstars. There' ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss's Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes
[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 Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
Gangsta Sophisticate: Ice Cube Is Officially No Longer A Joke
Ice Cube on his way to the Eames House in Pacic PalisadesSee also: *Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round *Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies G's often age awkwardly. The cop killer became a TV lawman. The guy who cribbed his nam ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2011
Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round
Ice Cube in the Pacific Standard Time promotional video about the Eameses Today was a good day for Ice Cube -- he kicked it in the Eames House. In a promotional video for Pacific Standard Time released yesterday, Cube discusses the work of husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, an ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2011
Bud Bundy's Rap Career?! Hear David Faustino's Music
In this week's cover story, "Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta," I delve into the remarkable hip-hop trajectory of David Faustino, who, while playing Bud Bundy on Married...with Children, threw one of the most influential rap parties the west coast has ever seen. In the early '90s, along with three of h ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: Who, Exactly, Is Allowed To Crip Walk?
[Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city.] Crip Walk "I'm C-Walkin' on the mutherfuckin' concrete," raps Ice Cube on "Go To Church." Other Crip Walker ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
Justin Bua's Paintings Of His Most Influential Rappers
Justin BuaJustin Bua is a hip-hop painter; you may have seen the print of his painting "The DJ" (see below), at Target, of all places. It's been out for over a decade, and has been selling ridiculous amounts of copies for years. He's done portraits of everyone from Nas to Kool Herc to Quee ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
Best Posts Of The Week
How well do you know your L.A. hip-hop dances? For the debut of her column on the subject, Jessica A. Koslow ran down the controversial origin story of the Dougie this week. Turns out a rapper named Lil Wil was doing it first, and had some choice words for our Inglewood heroes Cali Swag Distr ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Everlast's Top Five Most Influential West Coast Rap Albums
See also: *Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit. *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List As a teenager, Everlast was a graf writer. He made a couple tapes with his buddies, and the next thing he knew he was part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate crew. He, Dan ... 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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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 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 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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August 16, 2011
Wanna Own a Legendary Record Label? Black Jazz Puts Itself Up for Sale
Story by Brett Koshkin Neither John Coltrane nor Herbie Hancock ever recorded for the Bay Area-based Black Jazz label that flourished in the '70s West Coast jazz scene. Far from being a commercial powerhouse, the label concentrated on an epicurean selection of then-fresh faced soul-jazz musi ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies
Jennie WarrenIce Cube may cut hair in the movies, but if you schedule a photo shoot with him, his people will request it be BYOB -- Bring Your Own Barber. You'll need to bring a makeup artist, too. After all, he's not the same man he was when Boyz n the Hood came out, 20 years ago last month ... 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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July 14, 2011
Carmageddon Playlist: 7 Songs that Namecheck the 405 Freeway
By Sheila Dichoso Carmageddon is coming! We thought we'd remind you again about the three-day 405 shutdown. The media warns that chaos will ensue, so stay at home and smoke weed or something. The San Diego freeway is notoriously loathed. Because of its congestion, we put up with way too ma ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Gwyneth Paltrow Rapping: Please Make It Stop
The rapper formerly known as Gwyneth PaltrowNo need to express our feelings about Gwyenth Paltrow again; nothing's changed in two months. But for those of you who still disagree with us (even after she defiled Prince on Glee!?), we offer up this video of Gwyneth Paltrow rapping Ice Cube's v ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
BREAKING: MTV Discovers L.A. Still Has a Hip-Hop Scene!
In the beginning ... As announced in a trailer released this morning, MTV will air a weeklong look at L.A.'s hip-hop scene in a segment "we're calling 'The New West: An In-depth Look at L.A. Hip Hop.'" Though we're much obliged to them for referencing N.W.A.'s LA Weekly cover, we think the ... More >>
Music
March 24, 2011
Music Picks: She Wants Revenge, Nilbog, Lady Gaga
Also, Men, Ice Cube, OMD, the Aussie BBQ and others
Blogs
March 18, 2011
Rebecca Black's "Friday" Perfectly Mashed-Up with Ice Cube's "Friday"
Ice Cube is getting ready for FUN FUN FUN cause it's FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY YouTuber Delinq did the obvious--mashing up the audio of Rebecca Black's surprise hit "Friday" with images from Ice Cube's movie Friday--but he/she/they/it did it really, really well. Happy weekend to y'all! You know ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2011
Jocks Who (Don't) Rock: Top 10 Most Embarrassing Music Videos by Football Players
Top 10 Embarrassing Videos of Football Team Rap Songs
Music
November 4, 2010
2Pac and Walt Whitman
Two professors anthologize the best rap lyrics
Blogs
October 20, 2010
Urban Nomad: Aldo from Maldita Vecindad Talks Collectivism, Jane's Addiction at SmokeOut Festival
Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD returns to Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival 2010 to commune with '80s rock en español collective Maldita Vecindad. Bassist Aldo talks ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Oshea Jackson, AKA "Ice Cube," Wanted After Abducting Her Three Kids
LAPD have put out an alert looking for a woman who allegedly abducted the three children she was ruled incapable of caring for in Arkansas. She's apparently brought them to L.A. Police lament that they have no photos, but they do offer a revealing clue to help find the woman. She's 39 years ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Music
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
Film+TV
May 6, 2010
Commitment to the Raiders
Ice Cube's new documentary chronicles the team's L.A. years
Blogs
May 3, 2010
Straight Outta Hollywood: N.W.A. Biopic in the Works
Yes, *that* Jonathan GoldThe Hollywood Reporter (via MTV) has details of an announcement about an upcoming N.W.A. biopic currently in development at New Line. The film has the working title Straight Outta Compton and "will follow N.W.A (short for N---az With Attitude) from their early days i ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2009
Ice Cube at the House of Blues: From Compton to 'Cribs'
View more photos in Timothy Norris' Ice Cube slideshow. Ice Cube @ House Of Blues, Dec 11 Twenty-plus years into the game, Ice Cube has figured out at least a few things about the rap performance. He's perfected the rapper-on-stage routine with minimal extras (no fire, video, bitches, or shirt-ri ... More >>
Columns
October 29, 2009
Lakers From Row 6: Homie, You're In My Seat
View more photos in Timothy Norris' Ice Cube slideshow. Ice Cube @ House Of Blues, Dec 11 Twenty-plus years into the game, Ice Cube has figured out at least a few things about the rap performance. He's perfected the rapper-on-stage routine with minimal extras (no fire, video, bitches, or shirt-ri ... More >>
Music
August 27, 2009
Mack 10’s Hustler Handbook
When in doubt, says the veteran rapper, heed the late Eazy-E’s advice: “Always stay about your money”
Blogs
June 15, 2009
Ice Cube Turns 40, Lakers Win the Championship: Today is a Good Day
On this very special day, we at West Coast Sound want to wish Ice Cube a wonderful birthday. We hope that this morning you woke up and thanked God, and that the day felt kinda odd, perhaps because there was no barking from the dog, and there was no smog. We hope that right now your momma is cookin ... More >>
Music
August 28, 2008
Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show
Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more
LA Life
August 28, 2008
Garrett Morris
Mr. Saturday Night
Blogs
February 7, 2008
Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008
Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this year. Expect around the clock coverage from Austin.
Blogs
January 15, 2008
10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids
From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable." Oh, how our collective pride in t ... More >>
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)
News
October 5, 2006
Best Landlocked Treasure Island
Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)
Calendar
June 1, 2006
Music Picks
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Music
September 1, 2005
Live in LA
Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25
Art+Books
March 10, 2005
Before Bling
Hip-hop�s storied past
Music
December 18, 2003
Is That a Threat?
Hip-hop�s storied past
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December 11, 2003
Eazy Does It
Gangsta rap hits L.A.
Music
January 20, 2000
Word According to B.I.G.
Gangsta rap hits L.A.
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