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  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Everlast Was High on 'Shrooms With Cypress Hill When He Found Out About the Riots

    [Editor's note: In conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots late last month West Coast Sound spoke with rappers and writers whose work has been influenced by them. Here's one more.] See also: *L.A. Rappers Speak On The Riots: Our Complete Coverage *Don't Call Him Country. Everlast i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Author Jeff Chang: Hip-hop Predicted the L.A. Riots

    [Editor's note: Over the past week West Coast Sound has been speaking with rappers and writers whose work has been influenced by the L.A. riots, to coincide with their 20th anniversary yesterday.] Jeff Chang is the author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, perhaps the most important book about hip-hop ever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Here Is a Children's Cartoon About Snoop Dogg's Murder Trial

    See also: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac's Hologram at Coachella, April 15, 2012 Before kids' programming was relegated to cable, the major networks competed for young viewers. With the relatively new Fox network's penchant for cutting edge programming, their block of '90s shows for kids was no exce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Coors to Launch Iced Tea-flavored Beer

    Flavored iced tea has been all the rage for a while now (passionfruit-acai-goji berry comes to mind). So the brilliant minds at Coors thought: Why not iced tea-flavored BEER? Last week, Golden, Colo.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced it will launch Coors Light Iced T in Canada next month ahea ... 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

    November 17, 2011

    Scarface Is Out Of Jail, Performs At Key Club Tomorrow: Excerpts From His Last Interview

    ​Scarface plays the Key Club tomorrow night. This is big news, considering most folks didn't even know that the greatest of all southern rappers was out of the pen. In October 2010 he began a term at Montgomery County Jail in Alabama over numerous unresolved child support cases. (There is also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit.

    Brandon Turner​Everlast's new album, Songs of the Ungrateful Living, sounds like the kind of record a good ol' boy might play in Alabama while sittin' on the porch and sippin' beer. The former house of Pain frontman is in working-class-hero mode, singing in a gravel-road bass about fooling aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Top Five Metal Guest Vocalists That Make You Say "WTF"

    WWEThe Ultimate Warrior​At the end of August, Pennsylvania hardcore/metalcore outfit Century released its third album, Red Giant. The group's emotionally-charged lyrics are given a fiery delivery via the combined efforts of vocalist Carson Slovak and bassist/vocalist Ricky Armellino. On this a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Ice-T vs. Soula Boy: Who Won?

    ​[Editor's note: In honor of Soulja Boy's performance at L.A. Memorial Sports Arena this Saturday, August 20, along with Kid Ink, Travis Porter and many others, here's an excerpt from my book Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, which wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies

    Jennie Warren​Ice 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Lollapalooza Lineup: L.A. Bands Make a Strong Showing!

    ​ Is it already time to think about summer music festivals? Indeed, with SXSW and Coachella firmly behind us, we must now turn to the upcoming festival of festivals that has come to mark every summer. First major fest to reveal its lineup is Lollapalooza, which celebrates its 20th anniversary ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2011

    Go Elf Yourself

    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

    July 29, 2010

    DJ Kutmah: the Deported

    Artist opens up about his harrowing expulsion from the place he calls home

  • Film+TV

    May 6, 2010

    Commitment to the Raiders

    Ice Cube's new documentary chronicles the team's L.A. years

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    The Continuing Education of Freddie Gibbs: A Follow-Up To This Week's Cover Story

    ​ Thursday's cover story on Gary, Indiana-raised rapper Freddie Gibbs, engendered a substantial response within the hip-hop blogosphere, with prominent sites Rap Radar, Nah Right, Fake Shore Drive, and The Smoking Section, all taking note. Even Wale twittered a congratulations message. Cons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Interview: Urb Magazine's Raymond Roker Ditches Print

    Raymond Roker started Urb magazine out of his apartment in 1990. He initially distributed the newsprint publication out of the back of his car. It was distributed mostly in clothing and record stores on Melrose. The magazine focused on the crossroads of burgeoning dance music and indie hip-hop. Its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Ice T Guests in Bizarro Agitprop Funk-Punk Quasi-Rasta Video Thing

    So there's a band called The FunkyJahPunkys, first of all. How Bradley Nowell or Nick Hexum missed that one we may never know. Secondly, they're from Las Vegas, a notorious enclave for Stateside Rastafarianism. Thirdly, Ice T -- godfather of gangsta rap and coiner of the term "O.G." -- has contribut ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 8, 2009

    Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair

    Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Jane's Addiction to Release $75 Limited Edition Box Set, Reissue Classic Albums on $25 Vinyl

    If nothing else, Jane's Addiction sure know how to stretch out the publicity surrounding their impending return. It seems like every few weeks for the past half year the band does something, releases something, announces something, denies something or collaborates on something. There are the secre ... More >>

  • Music

    December 4, 2008

    L.A. Dee Dallapalooza

    Birth of a Nightranger

  • Columns

    February 28, 2008

    Conversations on Foster Care at an Oscar Party

    Birth of a Nightranger

  • 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

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • 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)

  • Columns

    August 2, 2007

    Flavor Flav in the Roaster

    “How do you embarrass a crackhead?”

  • Music

    June 1, 2006

    White White Baby

    “How do you embarrass a crackhead?”

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Freaky Kinky Nation

    The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

  • Eat+Drink

    September 30, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Photo Essay

    The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Five Really Really Really Bad Sci-Fi Movies

    The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

  • Music

    October 16, 2003

    The Big Bang

    The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

  • Music

    August 28, 2003

    Viva la Revoluçion

    Sound and sedition at the LAMC

  • Columns

    December 19, 2002

    Waving the Black Flag: Rollins & Co. Rock to the Rescue

    Sound and sedition at the LAMC

  • Music

    November 7, 2002

    Dopemen

    Getting a fix on Scarface and Clipse

  • Columns

    February 21, 2002

    TRIBES: Kittens and Puppies and Birds, Oh My

    Getting a fix on Scarface and Clipse

  • Music

    September 13, 2001

    Dead Serious

    Getting a fix on Scarface and Clipse

  • Music

    April 5, 2001

    Sigh Language

    A darker shade of AWOL One

  • Art+Books

    December 28, 2000

    The Coffee Table

    Our annual capitulation to last-minute, support-your-local-bookstore holiday commercialism

  • Music

    October 26, 2000

    New World Disorder

    Radiohead opts in/out

  • Music

    July 13, 2000

    Hello, Dali

    WMA winners announced, worlds collide

  • Film+TV

    February 24, 2000

    No Cherry Blossoms!

    Snarling yakuza invade Rotterdam

  • Art+Books

    January 27, 2000

    Music Pho the Masses

    Over noodles, the digiterati charts the music industry's brave new world

  • Music

    November 25, 1999

    Lunatik Derelikts

    Free 2 B V & Legacy

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