Rebecca Haithcoat

Kali Uchis doesn’t need to tell you she’s a feminist. She shows you. Consider the video for “Know What I Want,” in which an unconcerned Uchis slicks on lip gloss while a man, bound and gagged, watches from the bathtub. Or “What They Say,” where Uchis and friends shotgun blunts,......

It's 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon when Ty Dolla $ign remembers he didn't go to bed the night before. Well, not to sleep, anyway. "Last night at 2, I called a girl......

Technical difficulties are seriously killing Jay 305’s vibe. “That was a fuck-up,” he shouts to the crowd waiting patiently to watch the mini-documentary he and photographer/director Danny Williams from the Topshelf Company shot. “We gon’ blame somebody!” We’re in an airless warehouse on the upper edge of South Los Angeles,......

Stop offering Vince Staples weed. "Life is hard," the 21-year-old Long Beach rapper says. He stares at you when he speaks, unblinking, his limpid eyes catching yours with the precision of a shackle clicking into a padlock. "But I've never done [drugs or alcohol]. I didn't want to be in......

The weirdest thing about Kendrick Lamar’s free concert last night wasn’t that it was performed with a full band on the back of a truck while driving down a blocked off Sunset Strip with hundreds of kids running behind it. It was that he didn’t play a single song off......

On a recent crisp night, guys stuff their hands into their puffer vest pockets as a couple of excited girls, oblivious to the chill, bounce from one bare leg to the other. The requisite red velvet rope delineates where to queue, and a bouncer sits just inside a doorway, checking......

Todd “Too $hort” Shaw is sitting beside his partner Monica Payne, a powerhouse with a pixie cut, in the belly of their brand-new baby — a 5,000-square-foot digital production facility in Studio City called the Magic Gate. Dave Hampton, who renovated Prince’s Paisley Park, designed the space, which the couple......

When it comes to hip-hop festivals, Murs has the Midas touch. In 2006, the rapper had the crazy idea to create Paid Dues, an all-day, outdoor live music event packed solely with underground hip-hop acts. Not only did the inaugural concert sell out, it spawned a 10-city tour the following......

Hopsin ran away in January. Deeply depressed, he was on tour in Fort Collins, Colorado, when he decided he couldn't perform that night. Other rappers might booze it up, pop a Xanax or bed groupies to cope. But Hopsin doesn't drink, do drugs or cheat on his girlfriend. His only......