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Old School Hip-Hop

  • Blogs

    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 10, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! R.I.P. MCA

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: *Adam Yauch, RIP: A Life in Photos *Let's Not Reduce Adam Yauch's Career to a Single ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Listen Now: Roy Choi Mike D on 'Food Is the New Rock'

    Prior to his days covering the city's tastiest (and unhealthiest) lunches under $10, Los Angeles food blogger Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch worked as a music programmer at Sirius Satellite Radio in New York. But when Brooks went bicoastal two years ago, he didn't give up his love for music but instea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 26, 2012

    The "fun" in fundraiser

    Prior to his days covering the city's tastiest (and unhealthiest) lunches under $10, Los Angeles food blogger Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch worked as a music programmer at Sirius Satellite Radio in New York. But when Brooks went bicoastal two years ago, he didn't give up his love for music but instea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Is Syl Johnson Rich Off of Rap Samples? He Says So

    The Grammy-nominated soul singer Syl Johnson is currently suing Jay-Z and Kanye West for an alleged illegal sample of his song "Different Strokes" on the Watch The Throne album track "The Joy." (No, not the theme song from the television show starring Gary Coleman.) If successful, it won't be the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Christmas Rapping: Jim Carrey, Busta Rhymes, And Eazy-E Bring The Ho, Ho, Hoes

    ​While visions of sugarplum fairies might be dancing in your head this time of year, it's going to take a little more to bring your Christmas party to the next level. While the traditional seasonal standards are... standard, the surefire way to put the star on your tree -- or the eggs in you ... 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

    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 8, 2011

    The Top Five Sassy Salt-N-Pepa Songs

    Salt-N-Pepa​Long before there was rap vixen Nicki Minaj, and almost a decade prior to Lil Kim and Foxy Brown introducing the world to their sexed-up shopping spree lyrics, two female rappers from the heart of Queens named Salt-N-Pepa helped craft the idea of sassy female rap. And while the wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Jill Scott - Gibson Amphitheatre - 8/10/11

    Timothy Norris ​Jill Scott Gibson Amphitheatre 8/10/11 Better than ... drinks, dinner, and a movie. No venue is too big for Jill Scott's voice. It wields the kind of deeply supported, belly-rumbling power every Broadway baby dreams of. She had no problem saturating the Gibson Amphitheatre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Judge Rules Run-DMC Photo, Used by L.A. Street Artist Mr. Brainwash, Protected by Copyright Law: What Will It Mean for Fair Use?

    PHOTO BY GREGORY BOJORQUEZMr. Brainwash just got busted.​Forget the Shepard Fairey case. Music photographer Glen E. Friedman's lawsuit against Mr. Brainwash, the street artist profiled alongside Banksy in Oscar-nominated doc "Exit Through the Gift Shop," is the one to watch for legal fair-use ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey

    PHOTO BY GREGORY BOJORQUEZMr. Brainwash just got busted.​Forget the Shepard Fairey case. Music photographer Glen E. Friedman's lawsuit against Mr. Brainwash, the street artist profiled alongside Banksy in Oscar-nominated doc "Exit Through the Gift Shop," is the one to watch for legal fair-use ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    'These Are The Breaks' Indeed: Kurtis Blow Cited For Marijuana Possession At LAX

    YouTubeKurtis Blow on 'Soul Train' in the day.​Kurtis Blow, the rapper who wrote the urban chant of a decade (1980's "The Breaks"), caught a bad break of his own when TSA security screeners claimed to have found some weed on him Thursday. LAX police spokesman Harold Johnson tells the Weekly i ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    John 5: Malice Man

    YouTubeKurtis Blow on 'Soul Train' in the day.​Kurtis Blow, the rapper who wrote the urban chant of a decade (1980's "The Breaks"), caught a bad break of his own when TSA security screeners claimed to have found some weed on him Thursday. LAX police spokesman Harold Johnson tells the Weekly i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Cash Reward Offered for Stolen Dublab Cassettes, Money Mark No Longer a Suspect

    Sadness unspooled.​Last week, we hipped you to a free Friday night event hosted by the Dublab crew over at Silver Lake's Hyperion Tavern. This special edition of the typically great Calling All Kids night was to be soundtracked completely by DJ'd cassette music and thus, it was dubbed Top Tape ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Awesome Merch Alert: Stones Throw Offers Line of Cold Chillin', Biz Markie T-Shirts

    Nothing says funky like Cold Chillin', the legendary hip hop imprint of the 80s and 90s that, in its prime, was one of the hottest labels in the country. During its remarkable eight year run, Cold Chillin' released classics by Biz Markie, Kool G Rap and DJ Polo, Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Masta ... More >>

  • Music

    May 21, 2009

    The Sly Life: Music-Biz Escapee Matt Robinson Finds Happiness as DJ Mattnifique

    He spins at Stone Rose Lounge, Circle Bar and, on Friday afternoons, the Center for Yoga

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    A Conversation with Posdnuos of De La Soul: On Nike Run Mixes, The Current State of Hip-Hop and Oodles of O's

    De La Soul, back in the day Only a handful of rap groups can be bandied about as G.O.A.T: Wu-Tang, Outkast, EPMD, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, UGK, The Geto Boys, and De La Soul. If you need an introduction to the De La -- Posdnuos, Dave/Trugoy the Dove, and Maseo -- you obviously hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Help Celebrate Unofficial, First Annual Big Daddy Kane Day in LA (and See Max Perlich)

    We just made that up. There hasn't heretofore ever been a Big Daddy Kane day in Los Angeles -- probably because he's from New York. (We don't even know if he's ever even been given a key to the city.) But heck, you only live once, there's something powerful about grand, senatorial declarations, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Visual Artists Salute the Beastie Boys (and Biz Markie) at Gallery 1988 in Hollywood

    When they burst onto the charts after serving as the opening act on Madonna's 1985 "Virgin" tour, the Beastie Boys were armed with a fully formed style, an unapologetic, in-yer-face mish mash of B-Boy sportiness and Jewish golf-iness, mixing gold chains, plaid slacks, and cop shades, sporting Kan ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2008

    Dance for Change

    When they burst onto the charts after serving as the opening act on Madonna's 1985 "Virgin" tour, the Beastie Boys were armed with a fully formed style, an unapologetic, in-yer-face mish mash of B-Boy sportiness and Jewish golf-iness, mixing gold chains, plaid slacks, and cop shades, sporting Kan ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Where the Spin Begins

    When they burst onto the charts after serving as the opening act on Madonna's 1985 "Virgin" tour, the Beastie Boys were armed with a fully formed style, an unapologetic, in-yer-face mish mash of B-Boy sportiness and Jewish golf-iness, mixing gold chains, plaid slacks, and cop shades, sporting Kan ... More >>

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    The Many Moods of Rock the Bells

    Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2008

    LAFF 2008: Gardening at Night

    Scott Hamilton Kennedy is one of the whitest looking white guys you’ll meet, and yet he makes movies about South Central L.A. that come from a real place of knowing. Of course, OT: OUR TOWN was on one level just a movie about his girlfriend (now wife), but she also happened to be a drama teacher i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    Weiss Muxtapes #7 and #8: I Can't Live Without My (Internet) Radio

    Have you ever read this blog and wondered to yourself, hmm...this Jeff Weiss fellow has some self-righteous and ill-founded opinions, is it possible that he may be in the wrong medium? One would hope. Yet despite my repeated attempts to turn these misguided ideals into a viable run for the GOP nom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    How PM Dawn Could’ve Avoided Getting Set Adrift On “Memory Bliss”

    Maybe instead of wallowing in unchecked misery over "the girl with the fat diamond ring" (really, the fat diamond ring is the main thing that you remember about her?), you should just step to one of the mermaids swimming around the set of your music video. Granted, mermaid human/relations have al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    SXSW Flashback: Interview With Del Tha Funky Homosapien

    It was my third night in Austin. Devin had just blazed through an epic set that had been celebrated in the appropriate fashion , El-P was currently on-stage and I was wandering around the Def Jux party with four cups of Jack in my stomach, a head full of smoke and the strange desire to approach p ... More >>

  • Music

    January 24, 2008

    Rock Picks: Lucy Lawless, The Dagons, Big Daddy Kane and more

    For the week of Jan. 25-31

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2007

    Shows and Tickets Coming Up

    Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tendencies - San Diego Sports Arena, Dec. 7 - All ages Andrew Bird, Handsome Family - Orpheum, Dec. 7 Black Ghosts, Mezzanine Owls, Tweak Bird, more ... 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)

  • Music

    August 9, 2007

    Public Enemy's 20 Years in the Game

    Bringing that beat back

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Freaky Kinky Nation

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

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    The Beat Goes On

    Rick Rubin

  • Music

    September 15, 2005

    ''Led by God to Do Me''

    Reverend Run, raising heck

  • Art+Books

    March 10, 2005

    Deconstructing Prophets

    Reverend Run, raising heck

  • Music

    July 8, 2004

    3 the Hard Way

    Beastie Boys cl-clunk it out

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Music To Party Like a Duckfucker

    Beastie Boys cl-clunk it out

  • Music

    September 4, 2003

    Dandyland

    Polaroids from Silver Lake

  • Film+TV

    March 7, 2002

    Turntablin

    Scratch takes its beats beyond the bling-bling

  • Music

    May 17, 2001

    Om Nia Merican

    Scratch takes its beats beyond the bling-bling

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Dr. Kool's Pop Quiz

    Keith Thornton, Ph.d., an old professor from the new school, knows rap is here to test you

  • Music

    October 26, 2000

    New World Disorder

    Radiohead opts in/out

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    Down for the Good Life

    A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

  • News

    February 17, 2000

    Letters

    A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Word According to B.I.G.

    A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

  • Music

    December 2, 1999

    Still D.R.E.

    A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

  • Music

    September 17, 1998

    Bring the Sauce

    To live, love and leave before dying in L.A.: how the Beastie Boys beat the very odd odds

  • Music

    August 20, 1998

    Music Reviews

    To live, love and leave before dying in L.A.: how the Beastie Boys beat the very odd odds

  • Music

    May 14, 1998

    New + Improved

    To live, love and leave before dying in L.A.: how the Beastie Boys beat the very odd odds

  • Music

    April 2, 1998

    All About the Benjamins

    Hip-hop: The need, not the greed

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