Rebecca Haithcoat

Big Boi is in Aspen, freezing. Correction: "cold as a muthafucka." He's just performed at the Winter X Games as part of the tour for his solo debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, and probably would rather be warming up with a Crown Royal Black, the......

Only the good die young. J Dilla -- the Detroit producer who was a founding member of the Soulquarians collective (along with Questlove, D'Angelo and James Poyser) and is heralded as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop -- passed away five years ago this month. But House Shoes,......

View more photos in Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow, "Yelawolf, Das Racist @ Check Yo' Ponytail 2." WHAT: Yelawolf, Craze, Das Racist,87 Stick Up Kids, Rob Roy, Franki Chan WHERE: Echoplex WHEN: 2/1/11 Das Racist and Yelawolf are strange bedfellows. Based in Brooklyn, Das Racist gently pokes fun at the rap genre......

Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's produced by Boi-1da, who's responsible for......

Kendrick Lamar likes to compare himself to Tupac Shakur. But Tupac wasn't from Los Angeles and didn't know his father growing up. By the time Tupac was ...

It's 80 degrees in January. Wiz Khalifa has (at least temporarily) relocated to Los Angeles. The freshly Taylor'ed-up Snoop Dogg is training his young buddy in the Cali tradition of kush, cars, and keeping it cool at tha crib. The new "Cheech and Chong" just released their video for "That......

Who: Mac Miller (and Casey Veggies) Where: Troubadour When: 1/14/2011 If the booming chorus of boys missing nary a syllable of "Nikes on My Feet" and the piercing squeals of girls weren't evidence enough of Mac Miller's demographic, his crowd check confirmed it. "How many of you guys go to......

"Peaches Christ Superstar" December 17, 2010 The Orpheum Theatre Peaches, clad in a plain, pale leotard and leggings, and wearing ballet shoes barely breathed pink, walked onto a bare stage grounded by a grand piano manned by longtime collaborator Chilly Gonzales. The energy in The Orpheum quieted and turned curious......

Lil Wayne must've spent his court-ordered vacation at Rikers working out (and, of course, not sipping on sum sizzurp). With the release yesterday of his first post-prison single, off the upcoming Carter 4 album, "6 Foot 7 Foot," he knocked out every other 16 bars in recent memory. Wayne losing......