Jeff Weiss

For most of hip-hop history, aging gracefully was a veritable oxymoron. Most artists disappeared into dollar-bin CD cemeteries or else attempted to stay eternally young, mimicking teenage ingenuity as convincingly as a Steve Buscemi “How Are You Doing, Fellow Kids?” meme. Over the last few years, veterans such as E-40,......

Though he tends to wear enough blue to get drafted by the Dodgers, the rapper born Armand Douglas is far from your typical gangsta rapper....

Any one rupture that Nocando endured in the last three years could have inspired an album in its own right. There was his divorce, a split with his partners in Low End Theory, and public rancor with several artists on his Hellfyre Club label. So it was only right that......

Josh "the Goon" Fadem, who recently died at 35, produced, co-produced and/or engineered much of Gibbs' catalog. But it's his raucous personality that will be missed most....

With the new owners inevitably devising plans for the station's future, they'd be well-served to study the template of Reflex, one of Power's longest-tenured employees....

At least our dystopian times come with a terrific soundtrack....

The reunited duo of Kemo and Ives Irie just released their first album together in a decade and a half, and the "Tres Delinquentes" magic is still there....

The funk-rock band's sole remaining original member is full of amazing stories about sharing the stage with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Bill Clinton....

“When I finished this album, I was like, ‘I can’t wait to play this for Prince,’" says the man who met Prince Rogers Nelson in a high school gym class....

The Pomona pimp turned rapper's hilariously foul-mouthed, DJ Quik-produced debut album turns 20 this month....