Marion "Suge" Knight

It Was All a Dream

Top Five Reasons P. Diddy Is Hilarious Now

​Earlier this week, Rolling Stone our colleagues at L.A. Weekly reported that an ex-LAPD detective has implicated Sean Combs in Tupac's murder. Greg Kading apparently asserts in a new book that Suge Knight and Puffy ordered the murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac, respectively, and that h ... More >>

Remembering Biggie, Who Died 14 Years Ago Today

Happier times for the whole country​Christopher Wallace, better known to posterity as the Notorious B.I.G., died fourteen years ago today in Los Angeles. (Obligatory S.F. cameo: a few days before, he did a radio interview here on WiLD 107 where he said he'd hired a security detail because he feare ... More >>

Herbal Melodies

Choice moments in the surprising history of medical marijuana and music

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 >>

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 m ... More >>

Biggie, Small

Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.

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

Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.

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

California Loved

Roger Troutman and his family brought funk to West Coast hip hop and influenced everyone from Ice Cube to Tupac Shakur. Then his older brother put four bullets in him.

Changing the True School

Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

Wu-Tang Forever?

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