Derrick Mathis

“I’ll kill you, you pussy ass white muthafucka, I’ll beat cho’ ass!” the guy screamed, hurling a fist at the doorman. “I’m from the old school! You don’t know nothin’ ’bout house, nothin! You wouldn’t have a muthafuckin’ job if it wasn’t for me!” Four years ago at the Crobar......

It‘s after midnight and warm outside on this unusually busy stretch of Adams Boulevard. Cradling a mug of steaming water, Kim Hill adjusts the red feather boa around her tiny neck for the umpteenth time. Her big eyes flit anxiously between the small group of club patrons hanging out in......

Photo by Block There are three things you pick up right away when swappin’ words with MC Rakaa a.k.a. Iriscience of L.A.’s hip-hop trio Dilated Peoples. A: He ain’t a player-hater; B: He knows his shit; and C: When it comes to playing ball with the majors, for Dilated it’s......

Photo by Barry Feinstein “Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why . . . I feel lethal — on the verge of frenzy,” the serial killer Patrick Bateman calmly intones above M.J. Mynarski’s gentle piano on the soundtrack from the movie American Psycho. Unfortunately, besides......

Liftin’ up ya shirt to expose the brief linenow you squeeze the six packto show yo body look so fineshe‘s laughin’ atcha sorry asscausethe more ya half classis the more ya‘ half assbut I won’t cock blockI‘m just a niggah chillin’wishin‘ for some millionsan’ wantin‘ to own buildin’sthough every false......

AMEL LARRIEUX In ‘95, the seductive moans of Billie Holiday look-alike Amel Larrieux seemed to float out of nowhere, so scarce was the advance word on her neo-soul duo Groove Theory’s self-titled debut album. Fact is, Larrieux and fellow groover Bryce Wilson didn‘t need the hype; their Groove Theory quickly......