Compton

Documentary Examines Venus and Serena's Rise from Their Upbringing in Southeast L.A.

Blues Pillar Keb' Mo' Still Has a Few Secrets

Kendrick Lamar @ Celebrity Theatre

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.

Top Five Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar and MC JustUs on Voting and How Obama is Doing So Far

See also: Cut Throat Logic Spit Live (Video) See also: Lifted Aims for Timeless Pop, Like His Boss Kanye WestRapper Kendrick Lamar had some choice words about voting earlier this week. Namely, that it's pointless. "My vote counts? I'm not voting, I don't do no voting. I will keep it straight up re ... More >>

Best of Coachella Weekend One: Friday, April 13

Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn't get his flip flops on for the life of him: this year there was rain. The festival held in the Southern California desert is known for scorching, someti ... More >>

Jugg-Fest 2012 @ Marquee Theatre

ASU Basketball "Fires" Onetime Prospect Keala King After Split In LA Games

We're not going too far out on a limb here by saying it's going to be another long year for ASU's men's basketball team. The Sun Devils play hard for head coach (he of the recent contract extension) Herb Sendek--but the team is thin and the remaining players on the squad  basically are jus ... More >>

Nas and Damian Marley's Reggae-Rap Project Explores Their Roots

Game

Game

Eazy-E: What Happened After N.W.A. and the Posse?

​This is the final installment in The Posse Project, a 12-day series in which www.PHXmusic.com caught up with all 12 guys pictured on the cover of N.W.A's first album, N.W.A. and the Posse. Today's post is on Eric "Eazy E" Wright, who passed away 15 years ago today. To read the other installments ... More >>

Eazy E: Rap Hasn't Been the Same Since AIDS Killed the Greatest Gangsta

Dr. Dre: What Happened After N.W.A. and the Posse?

​This is an installment in The Posse Project, a 12-day series in which www.PHXmusic.com catches up with all 12 guys pictured on the cover of N.W.A's first album, N.W.A. and the Posse. Today, we continue with Dr. Dre the superstar rapper/producer who has had the most success since this photo w ... More >>

Krazy D: What Happened After N.W.A. and the Posse?

​This is an installment in The Posse Project, a 12-day series in which www.PHXmusic.com catches up with all 12 guys pictured on the cover of N.W.A's first album, N.W.A. and the Posse. Today, we continue with Krazy D -- the mysterious Mexican guy in the front row. To read the other installment ... More >>

N.W.A. and the Posse: Where Are the 12 Guys from N.W.A's First Album Cover Now?

​The cover of N.W.A. and the Posse, does not look like something released by the most important rap group of all time.Actually, just looking at the photo, who would believe that some of the guys in this alleyway would change the course of popular music forever less than a year after the flashbulb ... More >>

DJ Dossier: Smite

​There's absolutely no doubt that Smite is a definite rarity amongst P-Town's glutted DJ/dance community. First, there's the 31-year-old's absolute passion for vinyl that's second only to other record-loving freakazoids like his cohorts Djentrification and Johnny D. Serato ain't a word that's curr ... More >>

Outlaw Fleetwood, the "Tent City" Video by Dennis Gilman

What's going on with Tent City? Outlaw Fleetwood aims to tell ya... MC Outlaw Fleetwood may not be getting any awards for lipsyncing prowess in this particular video. Keep in mind, however, that all of this footage of Fleetwood mouthing the words to his anti-Arpaio song "Tent City" ... More >>

Rapper Greydon Square Is an Atheist Icon

Is The Game Over?

Just Announced: The Game, Rev. Horton Heat

We've got a lot of show announcements for you this week, though by and large they're D-listers. The major exception is The Game, who's coming to the Celebrity on February 21. As a long time West Coast partisan, I've always admired the way the Compton rapper went to head to head with 50 Cent's G-uni ... More >>

Gunnin' for that #1 Spot

Future Shock: Sarah Brightman, Ice Cube, The Mars Volta, and more

Relentless stickering and guerrilla marketing have made Digital Summer one of the Valley’s hottest bands

Bring On the Backlash

Stirring up hype and spiting the haters

The Game

The Documentary
(Aftermath/G-Unit/Interscope)

Merry Christmas, Beeyotch!

Forget caroling. Here's a few hip-hop jammy-jams to warm your Yule log

Letters

Letters from the week of July 31, 2003

Letters

Letters from the week of July 24, 2003

Rapper's Delight

Raising the Stakes

Pokafase risks taking Phoenix hip-hop on the road

Hop Online

Is Russell Simmons' 360HipHop.com the best hope to bring hip-hop culture onto the Internet?

Rap and Roll (and Fold)

Thanks to Dr. Dre and his partners in crime, smoking dope looks cool again

Beyond the Fringe

Styles of Beyond takes underground back to the future

Father Cube

Ice Cube re-stakes his position as a rap icon on the Family Values tour

Snoop Doggy Dogma

Who's the Man?

With Suge Knight in prison, onetime receptionist Norris Anderson is now the big man on Death Row

Live by the Gun . . .

Tupac Shakur's murder leaves behind a formidable legacy--and disturbing questions

Recordings

Mall Americans

A fledgling indoor-football league is a steppingstone -- for some, to the future; for others, to the past

Recordings

HIP-HOP SITCOM BOOM? BAH!

SAY HELLO TO COOLIOTHE RAPPER FROM COMPTON MIXES HIS GLOCKS WITH YOCKS

EIHT IS ENOUGH

EIHT IS ENOUGH RAPPING WITH THE TOP MAN IN GANGSTA RAP

LOST LOBOS

AS THE LATIN PLAYBOYS, HALF THE BAND FROM EAST L.A. HARVESTS ITS AVANT-GARDEN

DRE MATTER

HIS HOME AND PERSONAL LIKE SMOLDER, AND DR. DRE STILL PLAYS WITH FIRE

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?

HIP-HOP IS GOING TO POT. LITERALLY.

BUSTIN' OUT OF BLACKFACE

WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

FROM RUSSIA WITH GLOVE

RUDY USED TO BE A RED ARMY PARATROOPER NOW HE AND HIS COMRADES ARE MAKING BASEBALL HISTORY IN MESA.