Death Row Records

Mobb Deep's Prodigy Has More to Say Online Than in Rhyme

Richie Rich's Top 5 Collabs: Rick James, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, E-40, Too $hort

​Richie Rich's credentials as a Bay Area rap pioneer are surpassed by perhaps only Too $hort. When Rich hit the scene back in the late-'80s as a member of the Oakland-based quintet 415, they scored big with the regional classic "41Fivin." Since then, he's journeyed a career arc that's taken in a s ... More >>

Tupac's Fam to Broke Death Row: Get Off My Nuts!

​Richie Rich's credentials as a Bay Area rap pioneer are surpassed by perhaps only Too $hort. When Rich hit the scene back in the late-'80s as a member of the Oakland-based quintet 415, they scored big with the regional classic "41Fivin." Since then, he's journeyed a career arc that's taken in a s ... More >>

Quannum Mechanics

The amazingly true tale of the Bay Area's greatest hip hop success story

Merry Christmas, Beeyotch!

Forget caroling. Here are a few hip hop jammy-jams to warm your yule log.

Holy Shit

Rapper, actor, deity: the life and times of Tupac Shakur

House of Tudor

A rap-war documentary, the old new wave, and Gypsy-fied French noir

Wu-Tang Forever?

U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members

1998: The Year in Lists

U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members

Recordings

U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members

Samples

U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members