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March 29, 2013
Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge - The Mayan - 3/28/13
Ghostface Killah with Adrian Younge The Mayan 3/28/13 Somewhere between a classic film score and an adventurous concept album is where Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge meet on their upcoming album "Twelve Reasons to Die. Inspired by Tarantino and the RZA, the album is heavy in genre specific homa ... More >>
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November 28, 2012
Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...
Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>
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August 28, 2012
2 Chainz Has The Year's Funniest, Creepiest Sexual Boast
[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.] Formerly known as "Tity Boy," Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz is best known as a member of Ludacris' Disturbing tha Peace crewand ... More >>
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July 31, 2012
George Harrison's Son Dhani Lives in Town, and Modeled His Band on Wu-Tang Clan
At Apogee's Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica, Dhani Harrison, brushes his lanky black hair back from his cheeks and reinserts his orange in-ear monitors. The only child of George Harrison, he's also lead singer and ringleader for a group called thenewno2, who now gear up for the second half of ... More >>
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July 2, 2012
L.A.'s Top Five Actors-Turned-Rappers, Including Warren Beatty
See also: *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House Only a decade ago everyone was complaining about how the rappers were taking all of the acting roles in Hollywood. But nowadays the pendulum has swung in the other direct ... More >>
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June 14, 2012
RZA of Wu Tang Clan to Teach Teens in Juvenile Hall How to be Better Fathers
Hey young dads, want to learn how to change your baby's diaper or dress her up properly? Let RZA, the legendary hip-hop producer and member of the Wu-Tang Clan, teach you how. Seriously. Because you want the guy who produced "Protect Ya Neck" to demonstrate the proper way to protect ya baby from ra ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is nearly 40, but many still find this slightly-disorienting world of beats, rhymes and oversize personalities a bit daunting. So consider this our hip-hop Cliff's notes; here are the albums you should know about if you don't want to look silly at cocktail parties. We're not saying these a ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Seven Ghostface Killah Songs Showing His Softer Side
See also Ghostface Killah Changes Mind About Online Impersonator Ghostfase: 'Shout Out to My Mini Muse.... Funny Ass Ninja' Story by Reed Fischer Ghostface Killah has flirted with mainstream hip-hop, but has spent most of his career being the critics' favorite rapper -- for good reason. Tony St ... More >>
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January 22, 2012
Wu-Tang Clan - Club Nokia - 1/21/12
Wu-Tang Clan Club Nokia January 21, 2012 Sorry, but Wu-Tang Clan is something to fuck with these days. Sure, their fans remain passionate -- a group of grown-ass music writers I know do almost nothing but analyze their lyrics and recent solo projects -- but there's fewer of them. The group's rele ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2012
Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Blogs
October 31, 2011
The Hip-Hop World's Bizarre Co-Sign Of Justin Bieber
Hip-hop fanatic Justin BieberSee also: What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty? Rivaling his teenie fans' feelings for him, Justin Bieber has a big case of hip-hop fever. Despite being known for unabashedly poppy tunes, the Bi ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
"It Was Dark as F*ck on the Streets": Hip-Hop Does Halloween
TheUrbanDaily.comThe Halloween season is here again, which means very soon the streets will be filled with trick-or-treating children as well as women dressed as everything from slutty kittens to slutty paperclips to slutty sluts. If you're throwing a Halloween party you're going to want your ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Chuck D, RZA, Shavo Odadjian, Page Hamilton, Angelo Moore and SceneFour "Come Together" at Andrew Weiss Gallery
Keith PlocekShavo Odadjian stands in front of Shavo Odadjian in Nocturnal Art"They put me next to Dali, and I'm like, Yeah!" said System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian, standing between Salvador Dali's Triumphant Elephant and his own Nocturnal Art. Odadjian's work featured the Armenian genocide o ... More >>
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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 >>
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June 8, 2011
UPDATE: More Artists Added to Rock the Bells 2011 Lineup
Originally published May 24, 2011, 8:18 p.m. New artists were just announced on the Rock the Bells 2011 lineup:
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January 12, 2011
FREE Raekwon Track: "Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang": Will the Other Wu Members Ever Forgive RZA for "8 Diagrams"?
Raekwon has just released (through Pitchfork) a track from his forthcoming (and much delayed) project Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang. It starts with a lengthy martial-arts-movie style sample that seems to refer to the not-very-beefy beef between the Abbot (RZA) and the rest of the Clan. In case you for ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Bootsy Collins and LA Art Group Unveil Funk Portrait
bootsycollinsart.comHe's got the art funk: Bootsy CollinsA few months ago, the Wu-Tang's RZA unveiled a limited-edition piece of art billed as his "self-portrait"--a large image of himself as George Washington crossing the Delaware. The artwork was conceptualized by the RZA aided by Scene Fo ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Is Wu-Tang without the RZA still Wu-Tang?
Not all of these people will be coming to Club Nokia next Sunday...Next Sunday, concert promotion juggernaut Golden Voice is bringing what they claim is the Wu-Tang Clan to Club Nokia. To be more precise, as Mikael Wood pointed out in this week's pick, they're bringing "seven of the eight or ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
The Wu-Tang's RZA Dedicates Free Song 'Gone' to Late Quentin Tarantino Editor Sally Menke
RZA releases "Gone," a memorial.Wu-Tang production mastermind, aspiring filmmaker and L.A. resident RZA has released a new free song called "Gone," which he's dedicated to Sally Menke, the longtime editor of Quentin Tarantino's films who passed away last week. Via his Facebook profile, RZA f ... More >>
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October 2, 2010
First Snapshots: Yoko Ono meets Lady Gaga (and Sonic Youth's Thurston & Kim, and the RZA, and Mike Watt, and Princess Leia, and many others) at the Orpheum in LA
Gustavo TurnerYoko Ono and Lady Gaga frolic on a piano at the Orpheum Theatre in LAWe told you this one was going to be special. Stay tuned for our full review, but Saturday night's brilliant show/tribute to Yoko Ono at the Orpheum brought some extremely special moments with Tune-Yards, the ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill
Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang ClanAs 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
August 19, 2010
Music Picks: Sunset Junction Street Fair, Lucinda Williams, Y & T, Tanya Morgan
Also, GZA, Jimmy Webb, Fol Chen and others
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August 16, 2010
Live Review: RZA at the Key Club
Rebecca HaithcoatRZA, ready to ascendA little more than halfway through his show at the Key Club Saturday night, RZA proclaimed, "If you're not havin' a good time, you're wastin' your time." He then launched into a track from 2003's Birth of a Prince, "Drink, Smoke Fuck." Scheme, or serend ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
The Long and Winding Road to 'Wu-Massacre'
The latest Wu-Tang-related album is dropping (we are almost certain, though this is the Wu we're talking about, so insert proverbial grain of salt here) on March 20th, and the names on the cover--Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon--are promoting Wu Massacre in their expectedly eccentric way. Method ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
RZA Discusses Dressing Up Like George Washington: The Tights "Really Hug Your Nuts"
The first thing you need to do is examine this painting very carefully. It was based on the famous George Washington Crossing the Potomac painting, created by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze in 1851. Except that that ain't George. That's the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, flanked by fellow Wu-Men GZA and Ol ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
The GZA Performs Liquid Swords at the Echoplex, and the RZA and Killah Priest Make Cameos
In high school Spanish, freshman year, there was a skater named Steve who knew all of the words to Liquid Swords. I sat next to him - more like diagonally behind him - at an angle that both afforded me a prime sightline to the small BIC explosions he'd set off inside of his huge JNCO pockets (fillin ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
10 Hip Hop Highlights of 2009, from Doom to Raekwon to Antipop and Beyond
Top of the Hip-Hop Or, how Dan LeRoy learned to stop worrying and love da bomb. While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly wr ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
Top Ten Anime Themes of the Decade
Though anime has had some sort of presence in the US for decades, it wasn't until the turn of the century that we've seen so many titles hit the domestic market. Combined with the increasing number of conventions and other related events, this could be considered the decade when anime became almost ... More >>
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November 6, 2009
LA Stories: The Wacky Adventures of the RZA (featuring Sister-Luvin', the Black Tank, and Travolta in Drag)
Here at West Coast Sound we have been long-time fans of the RZA's 2005 book The Wu-Tang Manual, a really inspirational retelling of the conception and formation of hip-hop's unlikeliest spiritual gang. So we were thrilled when we learned earlier this year that The Abbot was working on a follo ... More >>
Music
October 22, 2009
Meshell Ndegeocello: Like a Real Revolutionary
“I’m no longer subjected to the Top 10 or the Top 100. I get the music from the last 100 years”
Blogs
January 16, 2009
Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed: Discusses Hip Hop and Comics For the Premiere of Afro Samurai
21 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson snagged a bit part as Leeds in Spike Lee's School Daze. Since then, the prolific Tennessean has appeared in roughly 70 films -- some of them good (Kill Bill, Do the Right Thing, Hard 8,), some not so good (S.W.A.T, Amos and Andrew, Deep Blue Sea), and some that can ... More >>
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November 21, 2008
Question in the Form of an Answer: An Interview with Chef Raekwon
No introduction necessary. Q: So what brings you out to LA? A: Just business brought me out here. I have an office set up out here and we’re just out here networking and keeping our minds at peace and just working on the album, staying in the studio. I’m doing a lot of things—dealing wit ... More >>
Music
September 18, 2008
Hip-Hop's Greatest Al Green Samples
The Reverend, replicated
Blogs
June 20, 2008
Weekend Music: Wolf Eyes, Megapuss, RZA, Bostich Fussible, and More
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Devendra wears his mega-dick and plays in Megapuss. Crazy. If you don't know by now, Megapuss is the side project Devendra Banhart (sorry, but if he's ballsy enough to put those glasses on in front of paparazzi, we're kind of compelled to use the photo). He's playing a secret show ... More >>
Music
June 19, 2008
Rock Picks: Seun Kuti, Thievery Corporation, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Also, Death Cab for Cutie, Ingrid Michaelson and more
Blogs
April 22, 2008
10 Reasons Why The Wu-Tang Clan's "The Heart Gently Weeps" Video Might Be Their Worst Ever
1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answer was Rza, but really, was Erykah Badu that busy taking trips to Israel with Jay Electronica that Bobby couldn't convince her to show up for a cou ... More >>
Music
March 27, 2008
GZA's Liquid Swords of Truth
Artist performs his masterpiece in its entirety this week. Here's why you should care.
Music
December 20, 2007
Wu-Tang Clan Still Sting
Sentencing Diagrams: A swarm turns in on itself
Blogs
December 11, 2007
The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6)
The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the time they hear it. Nothing I'm gonna do after that is going to match up to that time period, because they can't get that back. So I have to real ... More >>
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November 27, 2007
Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams
Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking solid. After just a few listens, it’s already in my 2007 top ten, and it will surely battle Graduation for supremacy on hip hop critics’ year-end l ... More >>
Music
November 22, 2007
Record Reviews: Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna
Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna
Music
August 9, 2007
Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze
For the week of August 9 – 16
Music
November 30, 2006
Rock Picks
For the week of Nov. 30 � Dec. 7
Music
December 15, 2005
The Dude With the Most Cake
Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB�s last album. What gives?
Music
July 28, 2005
Rock The Bells!
Summer love-in for underground hip-hop fans
Film+TV
June 16, 2005
Los Angeles Film Festival
Critics Choices and Schedule
Music
May 11, 2000
Black Steel
Common in commotion
Music
December 30, 1999
Thieves Like Us
Stalking classic rock with the Charlatans UK
Film+TV
August 19, 1999
The Hidden
Or, how The Blair Witch Project conquered the world
Music
April 2, 1998
All About the Benjamins
Hip-hop: The need, not the greed
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