Rebecca Haithcoat

It's Thanksgiving week, and Curren$y is in Amsterdam. Reason enough for a champion of chiefin' to be grateful: For a rapper like Curren$y, whose lifestyle mantra of "J.E.T.S. (Just Enjoy This Shit)" is fueled by smoking fuzzy little trees, this week is like entering the Promised Land. But he's not......

Shortly before J.Cole sauntered onto the Key Club's stage, the staticky intro of Jay-Z's "Public Service Announcement" bound together the sold-out crowd packed sardine-tight with more than just physical proximity. Acting as a unit, the audience rapped along with Jay, throwing their arms in the air as he shouted, "Hov!";......

The road to sobriety is long, arduous, and full of setbacks. No wonder Dr. Dre's highly anticipated third album, Detox, is ten years into the process, and has yet to come clean. But naysayers who'd given up on Detox as an empty promise can stop shaking their heads: What's supposedly......

Ask Dom Kennedy where he came from, and he'll say Leimert Park. Ask him where he's headed, though. Following the lead of his shiny new video for "Locals Only," he'll probably leave the question open-ended. Directed by Bryant Robinson for The Topshelf Company, the video's shot in one of L.A.'s......

Wiz Khalifa's finally famous. How else to explain his arrest after yet another sold-out show last night at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina? Around 10 PM PST, Twitter suddenly erupted with #freewiz trending nationwide, and rumors of the rapper being booked on marijuana possession ran rampant. Earlier today,......

Singing "Higher than This," the song that's landed her in heavy VH1 Soul rotation, Ledisi experienced some technical difficulties. Her microphone squealed but--bathed in golden light--she just smiled. The lady is a class act. She's also a lively act--although outfitted in a little black dress and six-inch silver-spiked platform heels,......

Everybody loves to reminisce about the golden era of hip hop, those glory days of DJ Kool Herc MacGyvering power lines for his two-turntables-and-a-microphone and spinning breakbeats for all the b-boys and b-girls. Except, as then, hip hop's held in the fierce grip of the young, most of whom weren't......

Barely thirty minutes into his set last night at the Echoplex, Bilal was bringin' it on home--but that's not to say he'd already finished. Sure, his beaten-up black leather jacket had been stripped off, his t-shirt was drenched, and sweat clung even to his eyelashes, but as he removed his......