The West Coast has long been a powerhouse in Hip Hop thanks to legends like Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, and Snoop Dogg. Even successors like Black Hippy, Odd Future, The Game, DOM KENNEDY, and a wealth ...

That evening at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, another of the biggest names in rap, Kendrick Lamar, brought together ...

West Coast artists and hitmakers are trending across social media platforms, with the hip-hop community and fans discussing ...

Swift, the West Coast collective known as Tha Alkaholiks, released their premiere album 21 & Over on Steve Rifkind's Loud/RCA imprint. Founded by West Coast legend King Tee, Tha Alkaholiks and their ...

East Coast-based hip-hop drew heavily on jazz samples and was generally characterized by rougher-edged, jazz-sample-based beats. On the West Coast, “gangsta” rap was the order of the day ...

West Coast rap has always been a powerful force in the Hip Hop landscape, yet for many years, it seemed overshadowed by other ...

Discover the tight-knit circle of 2Pac, Biggie Smalls, and their friends in the early 90s. Ed Lover shares the untold story ...

Under the banner of Outkast, André 3000 and Big Boi wouldn't just put Southern hip hop on the map, upending the East and West ...

Yo-Yo also picked “California Love” by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre. Yo-Yo pioneered West Coast female-empowerment hip-hop when she debuted alongside a newly solo Ice Cube in 1990. She hosts ...

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Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed ... But not for lack of trying on the West Coast, where in the late 1980s Compton’s NWA originated a frenetic, violent ...

From untold stories of the golden age of hip hop to shedding the kilos that threatened his life, we look at the making of hip ...