Tyga (Rapper)

Baby, You Can Drive My Car

Here's What I Listened To While I Underwent Incomprehensible Dentist Torture

"You're going to bleed, ok?" There were a lot of things said to me Monday afternoon, but that was the only thing I heard. It was said to me by Teresa, an otherwise perfectly pleasant dental assistant. Big as Barack Obama becoming the first Black President, big as Thomas Edison coming up with the ... More >>

Somehow, "Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)" With 2 Chainz And Tyga Ain't So Great

If, for the next few moments, we may be entirely liberal with the application of the term, I've remixed a fair amount of things in my short, trivial life. When I was a pup, several friends and I remixed the skateboard. We made something called a MEGA SKATEBOARD, wherein we took two four-foot-by-fo ... More >>

Here's What Didn't Suck About B.E.T.'s Top 100 Videos Of 2012

On December 31, BET showed their Top 100 videos of the year. It was a block of television that ended at 10 p.m. and began, if I'm remembering accurately, around 48 BC. I'd planned on watching all of it, absorbing the videos and then using that information to reach some grand, great point about rap ... More >>

The Five Most Annoyingly Overplayed Songs at Greystone Manor

Greystone Manor is the trendy WeHo nightclub usually filled to capacity with A-listers, desperate housewives, Arabian sheiks, ball players, dot-com CEOs and others who have something to do with reality television. Any given Sunday night you might witness Drake buying twenty bottles or Rihanna and Ch ... More >>

Top Five Ratchet Songs of 2012

Ratchet music emerged in 2012 as the preferred sound for rap fans on the west coast looking to party. Though it kicked off in Shreveport, Louisiana, Los Angeles producer DJ Mustard uprooted the formula and molded it for folks like YG, HBK and Tyga. The result? An inescapable mesh of raunchy lyrics, ... More >>

Check Out My Hip-Hop Coloring Book

I'm writing a book called Bun B's Jumbo Coloring And Rap Activity Book. It's not finished yet, though, so right now it's just a tumblr. It has that name for three reasons. First, because I'm making it with the rapper Bun B -- you know, from UGK, one of the most important figures in the history of a ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco and Big Sean - Big Boy's Block Party - 10/17/12

Big Boy's Block Party The Palladium 10/17/12 Last night, Big Boy's Block Party at the Palladium, hosted by the venerable Power 106 DJ, featured a little something for everyone. Headliner Lupe Fiasco brought his loyal fanbase and politically charged lyrics. Backed by a six-piece band, the black-clad ... More >>

DJ Mustard and the Story of Ratchet

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Hip hop is constantly inventing new slang for getting down and dirty. You could get buck, crunk, and freaky. Wild out or act a fool. This summer was the ... More >>

Is The Dove Shack's "Summertime in the LBC" the Perfect Summer Song?

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] See also: KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days This is the city and the season for the summer jam. Yo ... More >>

Ratchet Up: Street Hero YG Eschews Gangsta Rap in Favor of Party Music

South Central Foursome Finatticz Take Over

On a balmy May morning inside a posh Encino house, rapper James Dunn (who goes by Killa F Supernigga) and his partner, Anthony Brown (aka EZ the Great), are mugging for the camera. They're members of the Finatticz, a rap group who hail from the east side of South Central and are currently in the pro ... More >>

Music Picks: Robben Ford, Hard L.A., Adams Conducts Adams, the Polyphonic Spree

Also, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Pierces, Heartless Bastards, Darasuum and others

Five Annoying Things About "The Club"

Saturday night Fergie threw a St. Patty's Day party at the Beverly Hills club Confidential. It was a celebration of the new partnership between Voli Light Vodka and the Don-A-Matrix (yes, we get it) fitness company, both of which Ferg's somehow involved in. Though we rarely go to "The Club," we'r ... More >>

Why Limp Bizkit on Cash Money Makes Sense

See also: Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run It's confirmed: The Limp Bizkit-on-Cash Money era is upon us, whatever that might entail. We know because last week at the Laundry Bar in Melbourne, Austrailia, Bizkit/House of Pain turntabilist DJ Lethal spun "Ready to Go," the world ... More >>

Drake Was Whispering Encouragement in My Ear While I Was Having Sex

The other night, my wife and I had sex. Now, this isn't an altogether rare occurrence. The odds are against us (we've been together more than 10 years; we work multiple jobs; two profoundly talented 4-year-old cockblockers patrol the house endlessly like goddamn sex sniffing dogs), but we're still ... 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 >>

Chris Brown - Staples Center - October 20, 2011

Timothy Norris ​See also *More photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Chris Brown at Staples Center" *Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong Chris Brown, T-Pain, Bow Wow, Tyga Staples Center October 20, 2011 Chris Brown seems much older than 22. Of course, he's been famous since h ... More >>