Nelly (Rapper)

Trey Songz Makes $250,000 a Month From His Fan Club App?

Many music fans won't even spend 99 cents on a download. So why do so many pay $3.99 to send Trey Songz a virtual bottle of champagne and some imaginary chocolates? Santa Monica-based company Handmade Mobile Entertainment created an app called The Angel Network, an online fan club and social netwo ... More >>

LL Cool J's Authentic: A Track By Track Review, Without Prejudice

LL Cool J can do no wrong lately. Actually, strike that, LL Cool J does everything wrong lately. Last year there was his trend-hopping track "Ratchet," dubbed one of the worst of 2012. More recently there was his duet with Brad Paisley, "Accidental Racist," in which he more or less forgave the sin o ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 28 Fishbone, Quinto Sol KEY CLUB Fishbone have gone through a lot of changes since emerging from South Central L.A. in 1979, but the group can always be counted on for a funky good time. Lead singer/saxist Angelo Moore, bassist Norwood Fisher and crew have evolved from a ska-reggae ... More >>

Music Picks: Fishbone, the Growlers, Redd Kross

What's the First Rap Song I Should Play For My Newborn Son?

In maybe one or maybe eight or maybe two or maybe six days, my third son will be pulled from my wife's womb. (C-section life, bitches.) He has a name, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. If you want to refer to him as Boy C, that's cool. That'll do just fine, I imagine. There are a bunch of r ... More >>

Get Your Initials on Esthero's Ass, For Only $150,000

Esthero, the local chanteuse with Toronto roots, emerged in the late 1990s and has collaborated with the likes of DJ Krush, Ian Pooley and Kanye West. Her solo oeuvre includes everything from trip-hop to country, all with pop sensibilities and a unique vocal register (not to be confused with Nelly F ... More >>

Here's a John Tesh Song You've Heard Hundreds of Times

There's a John Tesh song you've heard hundreds of times. You love it. It gets you psyched up. It's called "Roundball Rock" and is also known as the "NBA on NBC" theme. You can play it below, and after doing so will likely not think of the former Entertainment Tonight co-host -- who performs tonight ... More >>

Let's Play 'Guess the Rapper'

See also: KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days Below are some illustrations of rappers. (The top is an example.) They also contain hints to help you guess who they are. There are 15 total. If you miss more than three, you lose and everyone ... More >>

Top 10 Sexiest Hip-Hop Video Vixens

LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Top Ten Sexiest Album Covers We've Ever Seen Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Thoughts From A Rando ... More >>

Cassette Tapes Are Awesome Until You Actually Have To Listen To Them

See also: Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance About a decade ago I crashed my car. Bad. I still remember it pretty clearly. I had a bad haircut and was driving on the feeder next to a highway and listening to music (maybe Missy Elliott's "Work It" or maybe Jimmy Eat World's "The ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Tim McGraw's Not Country and He's Not Pop. He's Just Awesome

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] For a true country aficionado, mentioning Tim McGraw in the same breath as Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, or any country ... More >>

Big Pimpin'

Pimp cups have real players and white kids alike dropping cash

Lenny Kravitz - Nokia Theatre - 2/16/12

Lenny Kravitz Nokia Theatre 2/16/12 It's been nearly a decade since Lenny Kravitz's heyday. For those who don't remember, he was ubiquitous on rock radio and won four straight Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammys from 1999-2002, and sold practically as many albums as Nelly. Backed by a seven-pi ... More >>

Blu Interview: We Chop It Up With ​L.A.'s Patron Saint of Lyricism

Blu ​Blu soundlessly materializes in Silverlake's La Mill coffee boutique. The rapper's aura is so serene it forms a barrier against the sounds of jittery fingertips flitting across keyboards and conversations that seem to be in fast forward. I think of a line from "Down to Earth," a song from ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: DJ Colette, Red Devil Disco, Magic Wednesdays

Lina LecaroDemonic debauchery of the Kitty kind.​As the prolific rapper Nelly once said, "it's getting hot in here (so take off all your clothes)"... By "here" we mean Los Angeles, of course! Summer clubbing calls for way less attire; more, shall we say, refreshments; and a general reduction o ... More >>

The Paper Magazine Party: Featuring Keri Hilson, the Beautiful People and... the Cobra Snake and his "Boyfriend"?

Jena Ardell.Keri Hilson performing at PAPER Magazine's 'Beautiful People' Party.​ There was no shortage of beautiful people attending PAPER Magazine's 14th annual 'Beautiful People' Party at the Standard Hotel in Hollywood last night where Keri Hilson performed poolside:

Top 10 Ripped Rappers (With Pics to Prove it)

Foxy Brown: the good ol' days​ Last Weekend, Eminem was doing his thing at the Grammys, but inquiring voyeurs just wanted to know, "where were those angry abs? Luckily, there's a stockpile of trashy pics on the Web that we can lust at. LL Cool J hasn't let himself go yet, and Nelly (despite h ... More >>

Top 10 Worst Musician-Endorsed Stocking Stuffers, Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Top 10 Worst Stocking Stuffers Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Q & A With Alex Moreno: Nouveau Mulitas, La Taquiza Meets CASA

CASAchef Alex Moreno​CASA in downtown L.A. hasn't had an easy start. Barely a month after it launched in January 2009, chef Kris Morningstar decamped for Mercantile and District. The Mexican restaurant consistently draws happy hour customers but hasn't had much success cracking L.A.'s foodist ... More >>

Theater Reviews: From Hoboken to Hollywood: A Journey Through the Great American Songbook

Also, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, When Garbo Talks!, Wicked Lit and more

Casa Downtown: Your Disney Hall Hangout Where to Go For Light Mexican Food

Valli Hermanchicken tacos at Casa Cocina y Cantina​ It wasn't so long ago that the idea of having a quick bite before a show at the Music Center or the Walt Disney Concert Hall meant eating a protein bar while you circled for a parking spot. Ladies and gentlemen, that is no way to start an ev ... More >>

Pull Up Your Obamas: Political Fashion Statements — Socks, Tees, Shoes and Even Underwear for Change

Beyond Shepard Fairey's Hope tees

Wale Realizes the Full Potential of the Mixtape

Last November, Zeus wrote a post dissecting the differences between albums and mixtapes for the benefit of crits and fans who had been mistakenly conflating Pusha-T rhyming over old G-Unit beats for high art. It happens. The post may have been a tad heavy-handed, but its point was salient. More of ... More >>

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 4: Searching For the Elusive Identity of the "Ghetto Cowboy"

I actually own this on CD-single, which is either keeping it real, or keeping it really retarded. From the first moments of the reel, one can immediately infer that the film is going to be of quality. Why? The stamp of quality from Mo' Thugs Family Features. Like the ill-fated male fortunetelle ... More >>

Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants

I wasn't at Banksy's Barely Legal opening party last night, but I did bump in to OBEY artist Shepard Fairey later on at La Cita downtown, and he told me all about it. He said that it was 'amazing' (not an unexpected response from Fairey, who believes Banksy to be one of the most important ... More >>

Revenge of the N.E.R.D.

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

Free as a Bass

A Fan's Diary

PHARRELL AND FRIENDS at Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, February 23

Where’s the Funny?

The year hip-hop forgot its dick can fly

Where the Balls Are

Bowling with L.A.’s alley cats

Balls Out

Dane Cook does whatever it takes to make you laugh

Before Bling

Hip-hop’s storied past

Recombinators

N*E*R*D moves on from hip-hop and rock

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

20 Ways To Shake It

The Neptunes Don't Front

Playing to Lose

Arnold may be governor, but the world is still a ghetto

Scratch That Niche

Return of the Prodigal Son

Nas vs. Jay-Z and 50 Cent

Geezer Pleaser

Back in Black

Boys Are for Noise

The Year in Music

Can’t Go to Sleep

Super Furry Sound

A year in music