Bootie Brown, Imani, Fatlip, and Slimkid3—were spending most of their time in Inglewood, California, at South Central Unit ...

Hip-hop was born in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

Lala Lala, aka singer-songwriter Lillie West, has signed to Sub Pop and released her first song for the label. (She was ...

With his new album Wake Up Supa, dropping today, Inglewood rapper D Smoke drops by our Sound Check studios to challenge his musical taste — and our host Jeremy Hecht’s ability to guess his lifetime ...

Long before Tinashe‘s “Nasty” spawned the catch phrase of the summer, (“Is somebody gonna match my freak?”) the idea for earworm came through a freestyle on the way to a recording session with Ricky ...

Lana Del Rey joined local band Fastest Kids in School in Santa Barbara on stage for a performance of her 2014 song "West ...

Badmon Joey kicked off the year by releasing the new single "The Ruler's Back" on Jan. 1. On the song, the Brooklyn rapper drops a line that appears to reference the reverence the hip-hop scene on the ...

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Unlike its New York origin story, no one can really say exactly when hip-hop hit the West Coast. But when it did, Alonzo Williams was there. Known as the “godfather” of West Coast hip-hop, Williams ...

Chanel West Coast is ready for her cowgirl era. “I have a new country single dropping April 11,” West Coast, 36, exclusively revealed to Us Weekly at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday, March ...

Ever since the pandemic, Neil Young has been reticent to return to the stage. After his peers started performing again, Young said that he still wasn’t comfortable. Last year, Young said that he and ...