"For people older than me and people younger me, [the documentary] gives them a chance to know who we are as human beings,'' Griffin said. "A lot of people have the perception of hip-hop artists being ...

The iconic rapper from the West coast just previewed a historic film about California’s early age rap scene. The foundation of the film brings it back to when a new genre of hip-hip was created by the ...

Over the last two decades, the demarcation lines between hip-hop and R&B have become blurred as the two genres have cross-pollinated through the use of samples, the proliferation of remixes and the ...

Founded by Ben and Felicia Horowitz in 2022, the Paid in Full Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization based in Las ...

There was something special brewing in Los Angeles around the tail end of the 1980s. In the wake of N.W.A.'s classic Straight Outta Compton album, young creatives began stretching and reshaping ...

C-Knight, a founding member of Long Beach G-funk rap crew Dove Shack, has died at age 52. The news was confirmed by TMZ on Tuesday (Nov. 7), when a member of the rapper’s family reportedly told the ...

Many critics have labeled the ‘90s as the golden era of hip-hop, and in many ways, that’s thanks to the earlier years of the decade. Artists like Eric B. & Rakim, the Notorious B.I.G., Ice T, and Nas ...

The year Nate Dogg stood accused of robbing our favorite Taco Bell, he signed a Bible for my little brother. It was a very strange time. We grew up in San Pedro, across the Vincent Thomas Bridge from ...