PHILLIP MLYNAR

L.A. rap mainstay OMNI's new project with Tricky is available for free download today. Titled IamOMNI, it sees the trip-hop icon handling production duties while the MC raps what is being pitched as a rousing "call to arms for the youth to claim control of themselves and to understand that......

The world's eyes are focused firmly on Compton today, as The Game, who is on our cover this week, drops his latest, The R.E.D. Album. The rapper is never shy about bigging-up his home city, not least by self-styling himself as "Compton's prodigy." Here's a round-up of the ultimate rap......

For all of the disses and shots Game is throwing out lately, you'd almost think he had a new album due next week or something. (Well, he does, and he's going to be on our cover, too.) The latest to find themselves on Jayceon's shit list is Bay Area phenomenon......

Phil Jackson, of all people, recently had some harsh words for "Fix The Knicks," the odd, showtuney-tune penned by New York Knicks owner James Dolan. (You can hear it here.) Dolan needs either "a better lyricist or a better musician," Jackson said. Ouch! Of course, it's hard to disagree with......

"Dam-Funk is just a class act." That's according to Benedek, an upcoming L.A.-based producer who just so happens to have Dam's vocals lavished all over the title track to his debut EP, the jubilant, cowbell-embellished funk work-out "That's My Jam!" The hook-up came about after Benedek approached Dam at one......

The Spike Jonze-directed video for Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Otis" debuted late last week. In it, the two professional luxury shoppers (and occasional rappers) gallivant around in a modified Maybach while rapping in front of a giant flag. If you've somehow missed it, knock yourself out. While it's pleasing to......

Last week we were supposed to get the major label release of Odd Future cohort Frank Ocean's debut project, nostalgia, ULTRA, previously a mixtape. Unfortunately, the suits at Def Jam have apparently stricken it from the upcoming-release schedule, with Ocean reacting by releasing the gratis download "Thinking About You," a......

This Friday, the Stokely Williams-fronted Mint Condition will be taking the stage at Club Nokia. The group came to prominence in the '90s with the huge hit ballad "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" But beyond Mint Condition's slick soul moments, the band also embraced the mid-'90s trend of......

The buzz around professional party-circuit players LMFAO's second album, Sorry For Party Rocking, is still going strong. The group's success has largely involved cultivating a public image resembling an extreme version of the most ridiculous hipster archetype. But it didn't always used to be that way, with one half of......

Last year, as SXSW'ers swarmed downtown Austin, Texas, Alexander "DJ RTC" Fruchter rented a palatial mansion in the nearby hills for four days and set about creating a "hip-hop fantasy camp." Rappers like Freddie Gibbs, Fashawn, Rhymefest, and Kanye West associate GLC passed through, hung out, and wrote music together......