Ice-T

Om'Mas Keith Helped Make Frank Ocean's Album. He's Far Out

A native of Hollis, Queens, NY and current resident of Los Feliz, producer Om'Mas Keith broke through with Ice-T signees Raw Breed in 1997, and has since accumulated production and mixing credits on Jay Z's Kingdom Come, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War and Rick Ross' Rise To Power. ... More >>

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

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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: 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Go Elf Yourself

DJ Kutmah: the Deported

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

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 >>

L.A. Dee Dallapalooza

Birth of a Nightranger

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)

Flavor Flav in the Roaster

“How do you embarrass a crackhead?”

White White Baby

Freaky Kinky Nation

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

Ask Mr. Gold

Photo Essay

Five Really Really Really Bad Sci-Fi Movies

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

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

Dopemen

Getting a fix on Scarface and Clipse

TRIBES: Kittens and Puppies and Birds, Oh My

Dead Serious

Sigh Language

A darker shade of AWOL One

The Coffee Table

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

New World Disorder

Radiohead opts in/out

Hello, Dali

WMA winners announced, worlds collide

No Cherry Blossoms!

Snarling yakuza invade Rotterdam

Music Pho the Masses

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

Lunatik Derelikts

Free 2 B V & Legacy