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The 10 Best Bay Area Rap Anthems of 2012

2012 was a fertile year for Bay Area rap, a time when the intellectual, the brazen, the sexed-up, and the chilled-out all took center stage at one point or another. There were songs that inspired dances, songs of Bay Area pride and protest, and more of that straight mack flow that still bumps around ... More >>

Top 10 Bay Area Music Scandals of 2012

The Bay Area music scene had a particular flair for making headlines for reasons other than actual music in 2012. Some of these 10 incidents are totally tabloid, others are cold and criminal, but none of them are boring. From Ecstasy rings and instrument thievery to lascivious infidelity and shockin ... More >>

World Series: Giants Celebration Continues With Parade on Halloween

Broken bottles, used fireworks shells, stray tortillas, water balloons, and raging bonfires fueled by lawn chairs and wooden street barricades filled the intersection at Third and King streets last night. The police were chill about it for the first couple hours, watching in riot gear from half a bl ... More >>

The Mac Dre Thizz Face Mask Is Here, Just in Time To Go Dumb For Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner, and your winning costume has arrived: It's the Mac Dre thizz face mask, a $29.99 piece of rubber and fake hair shaped just like the face made by late Bay Area rap great Mac Dre while thizzin'. (White, extra-large T-shirt not included.) Thizzin', not that we shou ... More >>

Peaches Party's Lady Fingaz and Andre: "We Aren't Good Lady DJs, We Are Good DJs Period"

Every Thursday night, visitors to the Mission's Skylark Bar can find an arsenal of local female DJs spinning, scratching, and playing everything hip-hop -- from grimy gangster rap to funky R&B. The all-female DJ party, known as Peaches, began three years ago when local bartender Masaye Waugh had the ... More >>

Thizzin' Sensation: DEA Calls Mac Dre's Label an Ecstasy Front, But Insiders Are Skeptical

Bay Area Rap Mogul Stretch on the DEA Tying Mac Dre's Label to an Ecstasy Bust

[Editor's note: This week's music feature looks at a recent DEA drug bust that claimed a substantial connection between late Vallejo rap legend Mac Dre's record label and a large-scale Ecstasy trafficking ring, of which 25 alleged members were arrested last month. One source for our story was East B ... More >>

Mac Dre's Old Record Label Affiliates Arrested in Drug Bust After Federal Thizzvestigation

As the late Mac Dre explained, Thizz Face is "a look on your face like you smelled some piss."This expression is similar to "a look on your face when you are arrested as part of a nationwide DEA drug-trafficking sweep."So we expect there were plenty of Thizz Faces to go around last Thursday when the ... More >>

Honor Roll Crew Singer 1 O.A.K. on His Debut Solo Album, Studio Mischief, and Covering Wham!

"We'll be taking a lot of shots tonight!" 1 O.A.K. is about to head out and celebrate his brother's 21st birthday by hitting up a few local bars -- but the Oakland-based singer and producer has good reason to indulge in some reveling with his debut solo album, Special Request, having dropped last we ... More >>

Roach Gigz's "Wasabi" Video: The Sake-Swilling, Broke-Ass Funnyman of S.F. Rap Has Arrived

After years of releasing mixtapes -- most of them excellent -- S.F. rapper Roach Gigz is finally putting out a for-real debut album this summer entitled Bugged Out. "Wasabi" is the first single from album, a typical C-Loz-produced Gigz banger that brags about the man's broke-ness, pale skin, prefere ... More >>

Watch: Drake Drives Through San Francisco and Oakland in 'The Motto'

Young MoneyDrake pals around with E-40 and Mistah F.A.B. in "The Motto."​Canadian rapper/pop star Drake just dropped the video for his single "The Motto," featuring labelmates Lil Wayne and Tyga. It's the third single from Drake's second album, Take Care, which debuted at No. 1 last month with ... More >>

SF Rapper San Quinn Reviews His Own Discography

What the shirt says.​ San Quinn is a certified Bay Area rap veteran. Since dropping his debut, Don't Cross Me, back in 1993, he's gone on to amass a 15-album discography, with his latest project, Can't Take The Ghetto Out A Ni**a, released in July. With that album's new single, "Big Bank," sti ... More >>

Friday: Lil Wayne Apologizes for the Swearing at Shoreline

Lil Wayne's family-friendly fun.​Lil Wayne Friday, September 2, 2011 @Shoreline Amphitheatre Better than: Rap shows without fireworks and fake gunshots "I apologize to the parents who brought their kids because of the cussing," said Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. at the end of a nearly two-hour ... More >>

All Shook Down: Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., and Maus Haus Rile up the Regency

Joseph SchellCrystal Castles at the All Shook Down Music Fest​ SF Weekly's All Shook Down Fest featuring Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., Maus Haus, and more August 6, 2011 Regency Ballroom [See Part I of our ASD Fest roundup, featuring Battlehooch, Richie Cunning, and Con Brio] Better than: Y ... More >>

From Basics To Based: Grab One Hour of 'Dope' Bay Area Rap

Swag!​Believe it or not, "Digital Underground" used to mean something other than that secret server farm 400 feet beneath South Park. Want proof? This just in from the Good Records blog, via Tumblin' Erb: Cities of Dope, an expertly mixed and surprisingly instructive hour of Bay Area rap.Jonny Pay ... More >>

Last Night: 50 Cent brings E-40 and Too Short onstage at the Warfield

​50 Cent @The Warfield June 3, 2010 Better than: Any sideshow in the Bay Area Hanging behind the stage at 50 Cent's show last night at the Warfield was a monstrous self-portrait of 50 emerging from a cityscape, with lava pouring out of his mouth and eyes. This apocalyptic stage setup mirror ... More >>

Thizzin' Your Way Down Clement Street

Eating My Way Down Clement Street Mac Dre's Thizz face: Your new culinary rating system.​Our pals at Grub Street have alerted us to a local blog with a charming and ambitious Richmond District mission. Eating My Way Down Clement Street is just that: one woman's quest to take on one of the m ... More >>

The Jacka reprises hyphy with a gangsta twist

SMC and Thizz Ent. Team Launch Town Thizzness

Thizznessman: Eddi Projex Local indie turf rap outlets SMC Recordings and Thizz Entertainment (a label founded by the late Mac Dre) have teamed up to create a subsidiary label, Town Thizzness, combining SMC's distribution and promotional networks with Thizz' street credibility and word-of-m ... More >>

Tastes So Good Straight From the Hood: Bay Area Rap Energy Drinks Pt. 1 (the Mac Dre Battle)

There is vibrant life beyond Red Bull in the energy drink market, and the Bay Area rap music scene in particular has inspired several of these beverages. In fact, two local brands offer cans inspired by the same beloved rapper, the late Mac Dre of Vallejo, whose life was tragically cut short in a ... More >>

Last Night: KMEL Block Party at Oracle Arena

Tech N9ne: Self-Made Killer

SF Weekly Letters

The Demise of Hyphy

Thizzle, bling, and blunts may have helped bring down the overhyped hyphy movement. But KMEL pulled the trigger.

Major-Label Misfit: Mistah F.A.B.

OG icon B-Legit reflects on pre-hyphy rap

Mobbin' Thru the Industry

How SMC Recordings built an indie rap empire

Last Night: Mos Def at Mezzanine

Bravez Team Hyphy

All Systems Go (Stand Up Entertainment/ Green Light Records)

The Bus Stops Here

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

The War Emcee

Messy Marv keeps it gutter

Producer, Remixer, MC

Oakland triple-threat Trackademicks does it all

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixes of the day

Misc. Reviews

Hyphy Hitz: dumb and dumber

Lemonade samples the world on the way to the dance floor

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

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Mack Minister on America's Most Wanted.

Feelin' Their Thizzle

How the culture of Ecstasy has changed as the drug moved from raves to hip hop

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

Department of What the Fuck?

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

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area hip hop mixes of the day

Mac Mall and Mac Dre

Da U.S. Open

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