Warren G Featured on New Song Paying Tribute to Nate Dogg
Warren G remains best known for "Regulate," his 1994 collaboration with Nate Dogg, which familiarized kids around the world with the rugged streets of Long Beach's East side, and just celebrated its...
View ArticleThe Story of How Tupac Appeared on "California Love"
Chris “The Glove” Taylor has deep roots in the L.A. hip-hop scene. He was Ice-T ‘s DJ on the electro-rap song "Reckless," which the two performed together in the '80s cult classic movie Breakin’....
View ArticleKokane Says Rappers Should Stop Ignoring the Issues
Rapper Kokane is a G-funk era lynchpin, a former Ruthless Records artist who collaborated with NWA and Above the Law, the latter helmed by his first cousin Cold 187um. Kokane is also all over Snoop...
View ArticleThe Best Advice Snoop Dogg Ever Gave Kurupt
Rapper Kurupt is a Philadelphia native who moved to South Central at age 16. He gained local fame as a battle rapper, and outside of the Roxy one fortuitous night met Snoop Dogg, who helped launch his...
View ArticleFriday Is Dre Day, and Everybody's Celebrating (Even the City of Compton)
Happy Dre Day! This Friday, June 19, at the Compton Community Center, gangsta rap fans will celebrate the glory of Dr. Dre. It’s the second annual such event, honoring “Compton’s First Black...
View ArticleR.I.P. Detox: A Brief History of Hip-Hop's Greatest Unreleased Album
Tomorrow, Dr. Dre releases Compton, his first album since 1999’s 2001. If you had told anyone over the past 16 years that Dre’s long awaited third solo album was finally going to drop on Aug. 7, 2015,...
View ArticleCompton Is a Fitting Final Chapter to Dr. Dre's West Coast Reign
On the fourth song of Compton, the final album from Dr. Dre, gangsta rap’s Hippocrates lets us behind the myth. “All in a Day’s Work” invokes hard times before the fame and describes his first...
View ArticleWith All Eyes on Straight Outta Compton, Warren G Quietly Unleashes More G-Funk
Lost amidst the fanfare of the release of Straight Outta Compton, the blockbuster treatment of N.W.A.'s short, tumultuous run, and Compton, the accompanying album by reclusive icon Dr. Dre, was another...
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