Tracy Jones

Rapping brothers Bigg Joe West and Deuce Mac, sons of Penthouse Players Clique's Playa Hamm, rep South Central hard on their new EP....

On tracks like "Ghetto" and "Make Em Jump," the actor/rapper offers a fresh, youthfully optimistic take on growing up in hip-hop's most notorious city....

Is Moreno Valley rapper The Faze's "Liquid Swords (A Cover Album)" an act of sacrilege, or a clever recontextualization of The RZA's classic beats?...

Under music director Manuel Castaneda, the bands at Centennial High School in Compton regularly win national competitions, and band students go on to enroll in college at a rate of 95 percent....

Jazz drummer and beatmaker Karriem Riggins just had a hell of a year. He produced Kanye West’s “30 Hours,” co-wrote and featured on Kaytranada’s “Bus Ride” and co-produced all of Common’s latest album, Black America Again with his fellow L.A. jazz/hip-hop artist, keyboardist Robert Glasper. Following Riggins’ critically acclaimed debut......

“Shit was crazy,” says Dominique Purdy, better known as The Koreatown Oddity. Cops were obsessively pulling him over for driving while black. And after his ride got towed, he was borrowing friends’ cars to keep his pizza-delivery job. The drama birthed a screenplay that he co-wrote called Driving While Black......

After 10 years writing for other artists, Gizzle is finally launching her own career with her debut album, "The Jump."...

On his eighth LP, the former gangbanger and ex-Marine confronts American racism in stark, riveting terms, with help from Myka 9 and Killer Mike....

2Pac taught me that my voice is a “weapon” for waging war against a rigged system that was historically intended to incarcerate or kill me before I was 25....

Netflix’s The Get Down is a musical odyssey about the birth of hip-hop and its sometimes violent labor pains. Depending on whom you ask, the show is either white Australian director Baz Luhrmann playing Christopher Columbus to hip-hop’s origin story, or a sublime fantasy about the roots of the most......