Ice Cube (Rapper)

"21 Jump Street": Yes, Channing Tatum Can Be Funny

Steve Aoki at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium: The Next Generation of Ravers Gets Down

DEADMEAT TOUR featuring Steve Aoki and Datsik Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Jan 21, 2012 Better than: Being slowly asphyxiated by menthol cigarettes and Vick's Vaporub. First silence, and then it hit. The subwoofers setup just a foot in front of me began to pump air out into the 7,000-capacity Bill ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

EpiscoDisco hits Grace Cathedral on Sat.​The holidays make everyone broke. First there's all the money you spend on loved ones, and then there's all the money you spend drinking as you think about all the money you spent on loved ones. Luckily, you can still give yourself the gift of entertainment ... More >>

The Eazy Stylings of Jern Eye

EpiscoDisco hits Grace Cathedral on Sat.​The holidays make everyone broke. First there's all the money you spend on loved ones, and then there's all the money you spend drinking as you think about all the money you spent on loved ones. Luckily, you can still give yourself the gift of entertainment ... More >>

P-Funk Tribute Tonight at PST

Let Me Ride: George Clinton on the Mothership Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr. Wiggles suit and plays a very special 4-hour tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic, and, no doubt, its associated artists ... More >>

Last Night: Cool Kids, Pacific Division at The Independent

Let Me Ride: George Clinton on the Mothership Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr. Wiggles suit and plays a very special 4-hour tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic, and, no doubt, its associated artists ... More >>

Summer Grows Up

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

The Gift of Reading

Still have people to buy for? Consider these books as last-minute stocking stuffers.

Outer Bongolia

Black Fiction's trippy tunes take listeners to unusual places

Most Valuable Teammate

What team more than the Giants needs a morale booster and respectful team player? They got one in Mark Sweeney.

Danger Doom

The Mouse and the Mask

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

Hello Nasty

After 25 years, R&B crooner Lord Nasty is finally getting his message heard: Everything's better with a big, fat dick in your mouth

Constricted

A PG-13 rating squeezes the life out of Anacondas

The Great Entertainer

Cedric lives up to his name

Come Gurp With Me

We hit the streets with one of the city's most eccentric rappers to find out if any S.F. natives know what a "Larry Dog" is

One Nation, Under Funk

DJ Motion Potion's populist approach to spreading the funk has got dance-floor denizens hot, bothered, and coming back for more

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

Absolute Beginners

John Singleton casts a fresh gaze on his 'hood in Baby Boy

Porn to Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

Green Light

Kerrigan's Human Traffic

Wu-Tang Forever?

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

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

Bombing Maneuvers

Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

Nuthin' But a She Thing

Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

Recordings

Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

Recordings

Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

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Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

Recordings

Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

What's Killing Hip Hop?

From the Western Addition to the East Bay, police and wary club owners have all but banished hip hop. Have the cops overreacted? Are the clubs at fault? Or have a few well-armed fans hijacked the positive vibe of the hip-hop nation?

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From the Western Addition to the East Bay, police and wary club owners have all but banished hip hop. Have the cops overreacted? Are the clubs at fault? Or have a few well-armed fans hijacked the positive vibe of the hip-hop nation?