Tupac Shakur

Happy Hour: Hyperion Public in Silver Lake Happy Wings!

Place: Hyperion Public, 2538 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles; (323) 761-6440. Hours: Monday to Thursday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Deals: There is a range of drinks at this Silver Lake gastropub, including three beer-and-shot combos from $8 to $10. Tall glasses of Pabst Blue Ribbon at ... More >>

Sorry, But Kanye Is the GOAT

Kanye West is the greatest hip-hop artist of all time. He's made the best albums and changed the game the most, and his music is the most likely to endure. One thing before we get going: This isn't one of those arguments meant to piss people off or "start a conversation." We really mean it. And, c ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar's Mood Music

The Compton rapper carries the expectations of his city on his shoulders. It's tiring

Here Are the Music Costumes You're Guaranteed To See on Halloween

Each Halloween you see scads of folks wearing the same costumes. Last year it was the damn black swan, and meanwhile Slash and the LMFAO guys seem to turn up annually. See also: *10 Best and Worst Music-Themed Costumes At KCRW's Masquerade and LACMA's Muse Ball *LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was F ... More >>

3-D Film Fest, The Exorcist and Cinerruption: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Thursday, Sept. 20 Our holographic ambitions may have hit a little bump on the road when the company behind Tupac's resurrection at Coachella filed for bankruptcy. But if Baz Luhrmann is right, at least 3-D is here to stay. Don those ... More >>

Michael Ochs

Questions My 5-Year-Old Sons Ask After Watching the Greatest Rap Videos of all Time

Were I an ideal parent, there'd be no real need for a television in our home. My boys and my wife and me, we'd just read books and ride bikes and learn new languages and talk about heavy philosophical shit all day. But I am not. So there is. I mean, kids ask somewhere around, like, 4,000 questio ... More >>

Dom Kennedy On 'The Yellow Album,' Maybach Music Group Rumors, And Funkmaster Flex's Tupac Comments

By J. Pablo Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Over the last few years, hip-hop artists who grew up in the hood but wanted to go beyond clichéd gangsterisms have been on the rise; Kendrick Lamar, Curren$y, A$AP Rocky, Big K.R.I.T. Hailing from L.A.'s Leimert Park neig ... More >>

James Rosemond, Who Once Managed Rapper The Game, Convicted For New York-to-L.A. Cocaine Ring

James Rosemond, the rap manager one L.A. journalist says was behind an attack that sparked the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop wars of the 1990s, was convicted today in a case that accused him of running a New York-to-L.A. cocaine ring, a courtroom observer told the Weekly. Rosemond, who goes by the ... More >>

Phife Dawg Is Down With Posthumous Holograms, Likes Funyons

See Also: Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary A lazy reader of the internet would believe that since A Tribe Called Quest's 1998 breakup, Q-Tip has a platinum album and Grammy wins, while Phife Dawg has done little more than gotten a kidney transplant and eaten a bag of Funyons. Of ... More >>

Thurz: The L.A. Riots Were The Most Historic Event In The City's History

See also: *Tupac on the L.A. Riots: "I Hate to Say I Told You So, But I Told You So" *Thurz on Reinventing Himself and U-N-I's Break-Up [Editor's note: All this week West Coast Sound is speaking with rappers and writers whose work has been influenced by the L.A. riots, to coincide with their 20th ... More >>

Coachella Explosion Rocks McDonald's in 100-Plus Degree Heat

It got so hot at Coachella over the weekend there was an explosion. No, not the kind seen on-stage at the Coachella festival when holographic Tupac was on the mic: This was a real, honest-to-goodness blast of fire at an Indio McDonald's. Riverside County Sheriff's officials say this is what happen ... More >>

Coachella Promoters Headed to Court to Stop Counterfeit Concert Goods Sold Around Indio

Goldenvoice, the promoter behind Coachella, wants to put a stop to counterfeit t-shirts, hats and other merchandise being sold today around the event at Empire Polo Club in Indio. It's expected to file a federal lawsuit today that would empower local cops to "seize and impound" the gear, according ... More >>

Here Is a Children's Cartoon About Snoop Dogg's Murder Trial

See also: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac's Hologram at Coachella, April 15, 2012 Before kids' programming was relegated to cable, the major networks competed for young viewers. With the relatively new Fox network's penchant for cutting edge programming, their block of '90s shows for kids was no exce ... More >>

The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

Ivy Queen, Plan B, Alexis y Fido - Latino 96.3 Spring Break Bash - 4/14/2012

Latino 96.3 Spring Break Bash Gibson Amphitheater 4/14/12 Better than... Listening to 96.3 on crummy car speakers in traffic. It was ladies' night at Universal Citywalk on Saturday. The girls worked the runway from the parking structure to Gibson Amphitheater, elbows locked and dodging tourists wh ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Physical appearance actually has little to do with sexiness. Sure, we've all been known to stare at a shirtle ... More >>

Never-Before-Seen Photos of Tupac and Eazy-E From New Book West Coast Hip Hop: A History In Photos

See also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Michael Miller and Paul Stewart had capped a successful Kickstarter project and planned a digital imprint of their book, a collection of photographs from the golden era of West Coast hip hop, called West Coast Hip Hop: A Histo ... More >>

Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss's Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes

[Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>

LA Weekly's Top 11 News Stories of 2011

And here we thought 2010 was a sexy one for Los Angeles. Our most popular news stories in 2011 make last year's fare -- alleged John Travolta sightings at a gay spa, Vegas broads who sell sex to make rent -- look wholesome by comparison. Los Angeles was a blur of nude pics and racy murders these la ... More >>

Rap Industry Fan Fiction: Here Are Some Freestyled Stories About Tyga And Tyler, the Creator

Sure, you have your cosplay and your Star Trek, but Rap Industry Fan Fiction takes the genre to a place that it isn't know for going -- hip-hop. The brainchild of UNC history major Kate Davis Jones and grad Drew Millard, the site makes good on titles like "Ice Cube Shows Ice-T His Model Train Set" a ... More >>

Phlo Finister: A Portugese, Black, And Irish Former Model Who Sings R&B

Phlo Finister's hair is black and stick-straight. She's wearing Tims and a tight, cropped Tommy Hilfiger tank. Her boxers are puffed out of the approximately size 38 jeans that pool around her ankles. With her gold wire-rimmed sunglasses, she's Aaliyah, circa 1994. This is not what we expected. Th ... More >>

Remember Our Top 20 L.A. Rap Albums? Here Are The Worst Records By Those Artists

​[Editor's note: Haterade Monday continues! Earlier in the day we told brought you the five dopiest Beach Boys songs (including one where Brian Wilson raps). And now, on the heels of our top 20 greatest L.A. rap albums of all time here's some more drivel from classic artists.] Hip-hop doesn' ... More >>

Cry Baby Lane VIDEO: Watch Nickelodeon's 'Banned' Halloween Movie Online

Viacom (Please don't sue me?)Scaredy cat.​So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick "Cry Baby Lane." According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and on ... More >>

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 >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 5-1

​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. 5. The Phar ... More >>

James Rosemond, Alleged Tupac Attack Orchestrator, Indicted For Interscope-Related Cocaine Ring

James Rosemond​Update: Interscope reps have responded to allegations that their L.A. offices were involved in the narcotics ring described below. Washing their hands of Rosemond, they call reports of Interscope's involvement "erroneous and completely unsupported," asserting that his alleged us ... More >>

G-Funk All-Star Kurupt Sails Uncharted Rap Waters

James Rosemond, a.k.a. Jimmy Henchman, Rap Manager Allegedly Linked to Tupac Attack, Arrested in L.A.-to-NYC Drug Investigation

James Rosemond.​Update: According to various reports Rosemond was remanded/held without bail following a court appearance today. A hip-hop impresario alleged to have had a role in the 1994 attack on rapper Tupac Shakur that set off the East Coast-West Coast rap wars of the '90s was arrested i ... More >>

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 >>

O.G. Trilogy

In the age of shuffle, rapper Bun B bets on the concept album

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 event​It'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 >>

Choice LA YouTube Clips: Stuff That You May Have Missed on the Internets

Lord knows we can't do and see it all. This is LA. Stuff falls through the cracks. All publicists are not created equal. A vast bounty of unrepresented musicians and artists roams the area looking for attention. We want to give it to them. Here are a few LA-based clips that you probably won't see an ... More >>

Death Row's G-Funk Fire Sale

Death Row Records Auctions Off Its History in Fullerton

(All photos by Brandon Perkins. For full gallery, check out the Death Row Auction slideshow.) It was perfect. The portrait of Nate Dogg in itself was tacky, but Suge Knight's alleged tweaks to the painting -- black eye and multiple bullet holes -- were priceless. The frameless artifact wasn't th ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Hotel for Dogs, Notorious, Paul Blart, Mall Cop

Also, My Bloody Valentine 3D and Owl and the Sparrow

Last Night: Going for Guinness! Dreidel Spin-off for World Record @ Third Street Promenade

(All photos by Shannon Cottrell. Click images for entire dreidel slideshow.) Last night I took part in an extreme effort to break the dreidel spinning world record, orchestrated by the Santa Monica Synagogue on Third Street Promenade. As I write this, I can feel the skin on the tips of my calloused ... More >>

Weiss' Summer Jamz 08-G'Z Up, Prose Down

Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NBDRWLQ 1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’” 3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang” 4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want” 5 ... More >>

Fall Harvest

While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

Killah's Message of Love

Ghostface Killah at the Key Club

Scene Stealer

Anthony Mackie turns heads from New York to Hollywood

Pro-Ducer

Straight Shooters

Guerrilla filmmakers PSTOLA declare war on jigabooism

Eazy Does It

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

The Undeath of West Coast Flow

Freedom Calls

Jurassic 5 reach higher ground

How Neatly Spreads His Claws

The 18th annual Sundance Film Festival

Hunger Pains

Ja Rule, Krayzie Bone: Inside the New Sensitive Thug

Between the Lines

Filling in the rap gap

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film