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Blogs
April 3, 2013
Shlohmo Is Blowing Up Before Our Eyes
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Slightly sick and bone-weary, Shlohmo staggers past airport security and baggage claim to hop into his ride back to his apartment near Fairfax. After sle ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold
See also: *Our Streamy Awards slideshow *Our profile of Jenna Marbles, from our People Issue The 3rd annual Streamy awards, honoring excellence in original online video, streamed live online (appropriately) Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium. More than ever before, nominees ran the gamut of n ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Who's the All-Time Champion of Rap Beef on Twitter?
Twenty years ago, rap animosity was expressed via diss songs. Like, if someone pissed you off you went home, thought about it, went to a recording studio, pressed up your album, and sent it around. The object of your diss might not find out until six months later. More recently the rise of the mix ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2012
Kreayshawn's New Album Is Not, In Fact, the Worst-Selling Ever
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with th ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2012
Myspace Was Better Than Facebook (For Music)
With Facebook's stock and growth rates skydiving, it's time to say something that should have been said a long time ago: Myspace was better. Maybe not when it came to its coding or those garish "personalized" pages, but definitely when it came to music. Back in the day -- say, about 2004 or so -- ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
The Ten Best Hip-Hop Dances of All Time, With Illustrations
"YOU ARE A FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING MORON AND I AM GOING TO DO PHYSICAL HARM TO YOU WHEN I SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND." That's an email I received last week. The whole thing. That's all it said. Bolded and everything. It came from a guy I've met three times. I guess don't necessarily hate him, but I don't li ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2012
LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned'
Stephanie Arakel shook her thang on stage with LMFAO for the better part of the year in 2009, just as they were blowing up. Only 21 years old, she quit her job, strapped on a polka dot bikini, and traveled all over the country with them. You can see her downing drinks in the "Shots" music video, bel ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained
Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop In our music feature this week, Jason Roche ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2012
Riff Raff FTW: His Best Tweets From a Turbulent Time
See also: Is Riff Raff Serious? One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are Riff Riff, the L.A.-and-outerspace-based rapper and avid BET, MTV, NBA and World Star Hip Hop enthusiast (he's tattooed each brand's logo on his body in a dogged purs ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2012
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 >>
Music
May 24, 2012
Is Riff Raff Serious?
One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Andrew W.K. - Avalon Theater - 3/8/12
See also: Our slideshow of Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Avalon Theater 3/8/12 Better than:...The sold-out 10-year anniversary show of Har Mar Superstar's Can You Feel Me?, which undoubtedly plays in Har Mar Superstar's mind every single day. Andrew W.K. isn't the ... More >>
Music
January 5, 2012
Music Picks: M83, Club Cheval, Chuck Inglish, Meshell Ndegeocello
Also, Elvis Birthday Bash, Barbara Morrison, Phonte and 9th Wonder, and others
Music
November 17, 2011
Dumbfoundead
Koreatown rapper inspires a tremendous following with his unlikely story
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
October 28, 2011
What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty?
By Lina Lecaro and Andrea Domanick Nothing is a more fun cultural zeitgeist indicator than what folks wear for Halloween. And, of course, musical personalities are prime fodder. So here are our predictions for what will be the most common music costumes this year. Of course, despite the fa ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2011
Are Kreayshawn and the White Girl Mob About to Skip Town?
V-Nasty with Don Cannon at Atlanta's Mansion It's been rough times for the L.A.-based White Girl Mob, particularly Kreayshawn. Maybe that's why shortly after their recent show here, her crewmate V-Nasty tweeted that she and Kreayshawn had purchased an apartment in Chicago. Meanwhile, last we ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Top Five Moments from The Game's Hoodmorning (No Typo)
On his new mixtape, Hoodmorning (No Typo), Game insults his haters' geographical acumen. "I'm in Cannes, France," he barks. "You don't know where that shit is." This might not be the strongest diss ever, but there's much to like on the tape; his voice is plaintively expressive, and he has an ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2011
1st Generation at Club Nokia, 7/23/11
Ian Cohen1st 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
June 8, 2011
Top 10 Least Sexy Sex Stunts in Rap Songs
Rappers aren't known for their ability to make our toes curl at the merest suggestion of sex--they leave that to Jill Scott, or Jodeci, or J*Davey. No, they're likely to get us all twisted up in our bedsheets for a different reason--confusion. Hearing one too many lines that made us go, "Hu ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
Today in WTF: Soulja Boy is Morphing into Lil B, Should Get Endorsement Deal with Target
Soulja Boy shops at Target Soulja Boy just released a video for "My Playa." In a case of the student influencing the master, he sounds just like his signee, Lil B. Also, he apparently enjoys shopping at Target (who doesn't?). With gems such as Soulja Boy examining the XBOX 360 selection a ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
Soulja Boy to Play Tupac?
As far as a stunt, Soulja Boy?"Power. Respect. JUICE. How far will you go to get it?" Apparently, the much maligned rapper Soulja Boy Tell'em will try reprising Tupac's role from the 1992 cult classic Juice in a "mini movie" reset from Harlem to his current home base, Atlanta. Yesterday, ... More >>
Music
February 10, 2011
Big Boi: The Legend
Outkast's less flamboyant half steps into the spotlight at Club Nokia
Blogs
December 27, 2010
LA's Coolest Producers (Daedelus, Schlomo, etc.) Do Prince, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy and More (Free Download of Entire Album)
Los Angeles' Friends of Friends Music has spent 2010 figuring out how to reinvent the way music is released and as a thank you for a successful year, FoF is giving fans a free download of its Pop Massacre compilation. FoF gave its favorite producers simple instructions: "choose a song from a ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Top 5 Hip Hop Guest Appearances Of 2010 (All of Them Involving Gucci Mane)
Gucci Mane loves accessoriesGucci Mane has a knack for making memorable song appearances. Whenever he leaves the studio he gets arrested so it's best he keeps busy at work. See, Gucci Mane is genuine. His real name is Radric, which contains the word "rad" and sounds like an Elizabethan Romanc ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Justin Bieber Teaches Barbara Walters How to Dougie, Cali Swag District Officially Jumps the Shark
As YouTube commenter Hubbard35 wisely put it, "you know when white people start to do black trends, it's time to switch to something new." Yhe infamous "Dougie" dance--introduced by LA novelty hip-hop crew Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How to Dougie" and pimped out by Soulja Boy, the Jers ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
WATCH: Soulja Boy Tell'em to Lead Swag Parade Thru a Suburb Near You (Also, the Word 'Hammer' Now Okay for Rap Again)
Soula Boy on Main Street, America. Watch out, Palin, he's gunnin' for your turf.MC who? Odd Future fan (read on) and international swag ambassador Soulja Boy Tell'em has brought the word "hammer" back to hip-hop. In what might be the word's first non-derogatory use since the early '90s, he's ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2010
DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For Diplo, Who Espouses NYC 'Gay Vogue House.' Really.
Diplo: Mad for Gay Vogue HousePerhaps more than any other artist, Philadelphia-bred spinner Diplo opened the electronic dance music scene to global, non-linear music and ushered in its hipster era. His dub, world and Brazilian influences are well-represented on his mixtapes and in his partner ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2010
Bun B Releases New Album 'Trill OG': Rapper Remembers Pimp C, Talks Soulja Boy Collaboration and Why Hip-Hop Can't Afford to be Lazy
Oldemar Alfaro[L-R] Talib Kweli and Bun B at the 'Trill OG' listening eventIt's 9:27 AM in Houston when rapper Bun B picks up fellow emcee Dizzee Rascal from the airport. In Bun's car they cruise the streets, pull up to a house, and once inside, slide a stack of bills across a table. In excha ... More >>
Music
July 8, 2010
WTF Is Art-Rap?!
Of Hummus and Hip-Hop
Blogs
July 8, 2010
Open Mike Eagle Unapologetically Talks About "Art Rap"
[Make sure to read Jeff Weiss' piece on Open Mike Eagle, from the LA Weekly print edition.] Open Mike Eagle - I Rock from Mush Records on Vimeo. In the first ten minutes of his acidic and excellent debut, "Unapologetic Art Rap," Open Mike Eagle samples Pavement and sings a portion of TV on the Ra ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2010
"Jersey Shore" Guidos Do Cali Swag District's "Do the Dougie": Viral or Not?
Ok--here are the facts: Cali Swag District is a hip hop trio from Inglewood. They're teenagers. They have a song/dance craze called "Teach Me How to Dougie." It's being pushed as this year's Soulja Boy, but we (and many others) are ambivalent. Today their press person emailed us a video of the Je ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
Snoop Dogg Mayer Hawthorne Bromance, Pt. 3: The Remix
Doggthorne 637West Coast Sound has gone to great lengths to keep you abreast of the now officially full-blown creative bromance between L.A. rap legend Snoop Dogg and rising Culver City soulster Mayer Hawthorne. We were first on the scene when the fellas' respective Twitter feeds hinted at a ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2010
The Bromance Continues: Snoop Dogg, Mayer Hawthorne, Diplo & Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
Snoop with the homie D-Beckham Bend ItIt's been just over a decade since Snoop Dogg started "fuckin' with white boyz in ninety-nine," as the outro of "White Boyz" (from the soundtrack to the movie Whiteboys), once so tastefully declared. Well, in 2010, it seems he might finally add a couple f ... More >>
Music
August 13, 2009
Rock Picks: Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, Elvis Costello, Rock & Roll Summer Circus
Also, Flaming Lips, Clipse, Silk Flowers, the Muffs and others
Music
August 6, 2009
ROCK PICKS: Black Francis, Bob Dylan, Caroline Weeks, Casiokids
Also, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, The Dodos, Buddy Guy and others
Blogs
May 7, 2009
Digital Hollywood on the Music Industry: Still Doomed?
The Internet has the capacity to ruin some and propel others to stardom. The file-sharing site Napster turned the band Metallica into joke fodder, launched Radiohead into the US Top 20 for the first time and uprooted an entire Industry along the way. Nowhere was this more apparent than at Digital Ho ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2008
The Never Before Revealed Script for Busta Rhymes' "Arab Money" Video (With Deleted Scenes)
EXT. THE ARABIAN DESERT-DAY BUSTA RHYMES and jovial sidekick, SPLIFF STARR, stroll through a barren wasteland: famished, high and disoriented. Busta:Where are we, Spliff? Spliff Starr: Yemen. Busta Rhymes: Don't yeah man, me...I pay you for two things: carrying drugs and geographic know-how. ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2008
Tonight: Da Capo Best Music Writing LA Book Reading (And Monster Truck Rally)
Let's say that you're drunk. You're very drunk. It's 7:00 p.m. You've been steadily getting smashed since work got out two hours ago and you have a fiery, insatiable craving to listen to some music. But then you realize that the High Places and Abe Vigoda show at the Smell (you carpetbagger you), ... More >>
Music
August 28, 2008
Record Reviews: Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, Darker My Love
Also, Hawthorne Heights, the Starlite Desperation
Music
March 27, 2008
Think Pad: Little Temple and Bar One
Check out weekly nights at these venues
Music
March 20, 2008
Record Reviews: Soulja Boy, Beach House, Cadence Weapon
"Yahhh!" confirms this 17-year-old has his finger on peers' music pulse
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 3: Why "1st of Month" is the Greatest Song Ever Written About Welfare
Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today. I can't even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would've been had I been forced to listen to "A Bay Bay" and "Low" everywhere I went. We got "Regulate," and "Hip-Hop Hooray," they got the Soulja Boy dance. And of course, there wa ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2008
An Interview With Pete Rock
Pete Rock needs no introduction. His new album NY's Finest drops on Tuesday. While it might not be a classic on the level of a Soul Survivors or Mecca & The Soul Brother, it's a strong record with occasionally great moments. But buyer beware: Jim Jones yells "floooosssssiiiin'" no less than fo ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2008
Wale: Actually Worth the Hype
The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rolling Stone and XXL have profiled the guy. Hell, Urb even put him on the cover of their150th issue (Though I'll admit that when I saw Wale surround ... More >>
Music
January 17, 2008
Record Reviews: Juno soundtrack, Carpenters ring tone
Also: Disco Not Disco, Trus'me's Working Nights
Blogs
December 6, 2007
The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 2 (#19-15)
This list has very little to do with Back to the Future II. However, I am writing it from the inside of a Delorean. 19. Pete Rock ft. Styles P & Sheek Louch-"914" Released by Nature Sounds in January as the single from Pete Rock' s still shelved New York's Finest record, "914" has inevitably bec ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2007
Raiders of the Lost Art
Sometime after 50 arrived, the art of the narrative wandered into a blizzard of coke raps, artificial hood mythologizing and pandering simplicity. Complexity no longer moved units, and with sales sliding, Scarface xeroxes and ringtone rappers became the safe bets. You can't blame the suits either ... More >>
Music
November 1, 2007
Soulja Boy: Cranking the Chain
No one understands the murky, download-rampaged world of major-label rap better
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