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  • 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 23, 2012

    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.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Coachella Weekend Two Tickets Are Selling Waaaaaay Below Face Value

    See also: *Our complete Coachella coverage *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Maybe it's the glut of tickets resulting from the addition of a second weekend, maybe it's because everyone hated the Tupac hologram; for whatever reason, Coachella tickets can be h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Public Enemy - Occupy Skid Row - 1/15/12

    Public Enemy, Yo-Yo, Kurupt, King T, Kid Frost, Egyptian Lover Downtown, Gladys Ave. and 6th St. 1/15/11 See also: *Public Enemy and Matt & Kim - Sunset Strip Music Festival - 8/20/2011 *Our slideshow of the Skid Row Street Festival Public Enemy is known for fighting the powers that be. So even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2012

    'Occupy Skid Row' Concert Featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt in Doubt, LAPD Says: It Doesn't Have Permit

    See our review of the festivities here. Updated at the bottom with what went down. First posted at 4:33 p.m. Friday. A planned "Occupy Skid Row" free street concert Sunday featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt and other hip-hop artists is in doubt, police tell the Weekly. The Los Angeles Co ... 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 23, 2011

    OverDoz - The Roxy - 11/22/11

    See also: Meet OverDoz: L.A.'s Freakiest, Cheekiest Collective OverDoz The Roxy 11/22/11 A beat before the curtain dropped on their show last night, OverDoz's de facto leader, Kent, addressed the audience soberly, "We did this shit all by ourselves." He could have been referring to any number of ... 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

    September 27, 2011

    Having Already Influenced Every Rapper You Like, Freestyle Fellowship Are Back

    Trevor Treynor​Sunshine men go dark and sky rappers eventually touch cement, but Freestyle Fellowship swore that they would never fall the fuck off. That was the promise of 1991, the pre-riot boiling point when their first hand-hawked collection of songs, To Whom It May Concern, crushed casset ... More >>

  • Music

    September 8, 2011

    G-Funk All-Star Kurupt Sails Uncharted Rap Waters

    Trevor Treynor​Sunshine men go dark and sky rappers eventually touch cement, but Freestyle Fellowship swore that they would never fall the fuck off. That was the promise of 1991, the pre-riot boiling point when their first hand-hawked collection of songs, To Whom It May Concern, crushed casset ... More >>

  • Music

    August 25, 2011

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

    Will his old tricks still work?

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    1st Generation at Club Nokia, 7/23/11

    Ian Cohen​1st Generation Club Nokia July 23, 2011 Better than: Compton High School's annual talent show, but possibly not. It's been said that you can instantly judge the economic health of a neighborhood based on the prevalence of barriers: fences, security systems, especially speed bumps. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    "H is for Ho": Sesame Street Does "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)"

    "Well, if Kurupt gave a ..." Kermit Tha Kingpin ​If Nate Dogg's untimely passing has a silver lining, it's been the mass revisiting of his vast catalog of songs. We found a Nate neophyte (nope, not even "Regulate") and were giving him the YouTube tour when we stumbled upon a Sesame Street ve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Pulitzer-Prize Winner Jonathan Gold Writes Moving Nate Dogg Obituary for LA Weekly

    Christopher Victorio for OC WeeklyMr. and Mrs. Broadus before Nate Dogg's memorial service Saturday ​ Within the structure of a classic G-funk track, a musical form as precise as a Mozart string quintet, after the opening skit, the establishment of the minimal beat, the rapper's expository ver ... More >>

  • Music

    January 27, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    Christopher Victorio for OC WeeklyMr. and Mrs. Broadus before Nate Dogg's memorial service Saturday ​ Within the structure of a classic G-funk track, a musical form as precise as a Mozart string quintet, after the opening skit, the establishment of the minimal beat, the rapper's expository ver ... More >>

  • Music

    January 6, 2011

    Music Picks: Amy Kuney, Whispertown, the Civil Wars, Jake Bellows, Plan B

    Also, Thom Bresh, Pictureplane, James Intveld and others

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill

    Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang Clan​As it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now were free to exclaim over the lineup, a mix of ones-to- ... More >>

  • Music

    April 1, 2010

    Music Picks: Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bad Religion, Non

    Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    East Coast Clobbers West Coast in 2009 Pazz & Jop Music Poll

    Well, if you're keeping track at home, the so-called "west coast sound" got clobbered this year in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best music. And when we say "clobbered," we actually mean "beaten to a bloody pulp." Consider this: In the list of the top 100 albums o ... More >>

  • 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

    June 4, 2009

    A Little Something for the Lakers Fans: Great Songs About Our Team

    It might be a hellish commute tonight with a host of Lakers flag-sporting vehicles anxiously crawling across the freeways in the hopes that their drivers can get home in time to catch the first game of the NBA Finals, where the Lakers square off against Orlando's Magic at 6 p.m. Instead of stressin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Weiss' 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (#50-26)

    Over the next two weeks, myself and a very talented cadre of contributors will be emulating the book above. Unlike said tome, it won't cost money and you'll get free MP3s--which, presumably, serve a tangible purpose. Now go cry into your near-beer, Phillip Ardagh, you lovable rogue. 50. Redman ft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    The iPol Shuffle: What Should Be On Obama's iPod From Now Until Election Day

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 4, 2008

    Rock Picks: DJ Quik, Alejandro Escovedo, Ratatat

    Also, the Bad Plus, Amos Lee, Built to Spill, and more

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    Snoop Goes Country! Snoop Dogg Live at Fox Studios, March 6

    photos by Timothy Norris Snoop Dogg gigged with an 18-piece backing band in a Fox Studio sound room last night for the Nissan Live series shown on Yahoo! Music, and now that I’ve pimped the corporate affiliates that made this evening of taping possible, let’s just say right off the bat: I have ... More >>

  • 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

    October 12, 2006

    Pimp My Geo

    Xzibit: Chrome wheels, platinum records, silver screens (and the dirt behind)

  • 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 Quiñones catches the buzz.

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2006

    Music Picks

    For the week of June 1 - 7

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    The Mad Science of Fredwreck

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

  • Music

    May 26, 2005

    Live in LA

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

  • Music

    October 16, 2003

    The Big Bang

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

  • Music

    May 15, 2003

    The Undeath of West Coast Flow

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

  • Film+TV

    February 27, 2003

    Our Dark Blue Places

    Ellroy via Shelton, plus Till Human Voices Wake Us

  • Music

    November 29, 2001

    Get Loose

    Afro-beaten, Afro-burned

  • Music

    November 25, 1999

    Beat Seeker

    Don't punk Julio G

  • Music

    February 18, 1999

    Myth Master

    The fabrication of Ms. Foxy Brown

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