Subject: Kneak Da Sneak

• Keak Da Sneak Arrested?

  July 18, 2008

• Oakland's High on Fire to Release Next Album on Koch

  Good news for Bay Area metalheads: High on Fire just signed to Koch Records. The Oakland trio is now in the process of writing their next album due in 2009 that will be released by the aforementioned juggernaut of an indie label. High on Fire joins an ecclectic label roster that puts them alongside fellow Oakland artist Keak Da Sneak, fellow metal dudes Hatebreed, and fellow songbird of a generation Carole King. There's no set date for the new album, but we'll keep you posted. --Oscar Pascual

  December 18, 2008

• Rick Lee Launches New Bay Area Music Magazine

  Sucka Free: Rick LeeIf you like hardcore Bay Area/West Coast rappers like Keak Da Sneak and The Jacka, or get titillated by industry gossip about Suge Knight allegedly getting a beatdown by a member of Akon's entourage, there's a new magazine just for you: Go Der (urban slang for "go there"). The mag promises exclusive content, and while we haven't seen a hard copy of it yet, the online version contains hella videos, downloadable DJ mixes, and, it must be said, a lot of advertising eye-candy to

  February 20, 2009

• The Bus Stops Here

  Mistah F.A.B. picks up where hyphy left off

  May 30, 2007

• The War Emcee

  March 14, 2007

• Producer, Remixer, MC

  Oakland triple-threat Trackademicks does it all

  February 7, 2007

• Misc. Reviews

  Hyphy Hitz: dumb and dumber

  January 3, 2007

• Live Wires

  The high and lowlights of 2006 performances

  December 20, 2006

• Hip Hop 101: the Underdogs/Alt-Rock 101: the Secret of Their Overseas Success/ DJ Culture 101: the Critical Mash Honors Club

  October 18, 2006

• Out of the Shadow

  The DJ who works out of S.F. has crafted both exquisite beats and a carefully cultivated mystique. Find out from him why the lush trip hop is being replaced by a local hyphy sound.

  September 13, 2006

• Traxamillion

  The Slapp Addict

  August 16, 2006

• Bubble, Toil, and Trouble

  Bay Area hip hop ponders a Cristal boycott

  June 28, 2006

• My Name Is Earl

  E-40 blows up, and takes the rest of the Bay Area with him

  March 15, 2006

• Mixtape Shmixtape

  February 8, 2006

• Mixtape Shmixtape

  January 18, 2006

• Department of What the Fuck?

  Beef, it's what's for dinner: Hip hop feuds we'd like to see

  December 21, 2005

• Mixtape Shmixtape

  November 9, 2005

• Zion I

  Hip hop's hope for uniting the underground and the streets

  October 19, 2005

• Art & Soul Downsizes, Ignores Local Rappers

  EKAphotographyMissing in Action: the Kev Choice Ensemble​ The big news with Oakland's annual Art & Soul festival this year is that it's now two days, instead of three, and the date has been moved up to August 15 and 16, instead of the traditional Labor Day. A&S has a bunch of ads giving the Top Ten reasons the festival was moved, i.e. "bay bridge closing," which doesn't make a lot of sense in my opinion, given that the festival is accessible by BART anyway. But whatever. A&S is

  August 4, 2009

• F.N.M At We All We Got Tonight

  www.OneShotMediaProductions.comHe'll Slapp You: Traxxamillion​​ South Bay producer Traxamillion was arguably as big a force in the hyphy movement as any artist. His hot-shit beats backed everyone from Keak Da Sneak to Mistah F.A.B. to Dem Hoodstarz to Too $hort to 41Fever. He even produced MC Lars' "White Kids Aren't Hyphy." And he has the distinction of having a PSP app, the Traxxpad Portable Studio, named after him. Traxx's newest project is F.N.M. (Fly N*gga Movement), a group with fel

  September 11, 2009

• SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

  October 17, 2007

• Mobbin' Thru the Industry

  October 17, 2007