Ol' Dirty Bastard

Easy, Noisy Living: Nor-Cal's Best Summer Music Festivals

The Eight Most Memorable Pop Culture References on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

The rap game -- well, any game -- could use more people with the ambition of the RZA and the ability to make good on it. The man born Robert Diggs is more than an MC, a producer, and an actor. His resume also includes "DICTATOR" in big, bold letters: When the Wu-Tang Clan was just a bunch of young b ... More >>

Detroit Rapper Danny Brown Doesn't Remember What He Did Last Night

Danny Brown, engaged in a favorite pastime.​ "I smoked so much weed I don't remember what I did last night. I don't know what the fuck is going on with this interview." That's Danny Brown, on a tour bus going somewhere to some place in Texas, giving up on raiding his memory banks for an answer ... More >>

The Top Ten Hip-Hop Drinking Anthems

​Hip-hop's reliance on marijuana as a creative conduit and lifestyle accessory is well documented. But beyond the genre's top tokers, there's also a bubbling batch of rappers who've rhymed about not so much getting a little tipsy as daily dalliances with the dark world of being black-out drunk ... More >>

Top 5 Rappers Who Are Obsessed With Phil Collins (And Will Be Sad That He's Retiring!)

Phil Collins, the Genesis drummer turned solo artist, has retired from making music. This is sad news for his army of worldwide fans, most of whom presumably have sizable classic rock collections. But it's also news that will devastate a demographic one might not automatically associate with songs ... More >>

Crazy Kids Matt and Kim Climb the Stage, Tell Jokes, Play Every Song They Have

​Matt and KimFang IslandLimousines September 30, 2010@The FillmoreBetter than: Richard Linklater's Before Sunset," but probably just as good as "Before Sunrise."  Smiley-faced popsters Matt and Kim are the houseguests everybody wants -- they compliment the digs, they tell interestin ... More >>

Rock the Bells 2010: Classic performances of hip-hop albums

Review and Download: Curtains' 'The Dissertaion (The Wu Thesis)'

​The past month has been a pretty great one for rap. New Orleans weed aficionado and sometime Lil Wayne sidekick Curren$y released Pilot Talk, featuring a terrific single, "The Day," where Jay Electronica waxes "young, black, intelligent, elegant, blasé," and Mos Def sounds like his jaw is still ... More >>

Exclusive: '90s R&B Mini-Mix by Debaser's Jamie Jams

Chris BrennanJamie Jams​One thing I've always greatly respected about Jamie Jams and the other fellas that run the 'SF Weekly Best of 2010' Debaser club is their unending wealth of knowledge about the music they love. Obviously, they know their way around '90s alt-rock hits, but it's a pleasant su ... More >>

Gone Clubbin' at Debaser: Blunts and Broads in Dive Bars

Matthew Davis​You could blame Debaser's recent run-in with Internet flame wars (pt. 1 and pt. 2) for the massive line that stretched outside during the '90s club night at The Knockout on Saturday. But the truth is that people really like to dance to classic hip-hop on the weekends, and when Debase ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan at Grand Ballroom in Dec., Tickets on Sale this Week

The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas Headline Annual Rock the Bells Festival

RZA Preps New Bobby Digital Album, Plays SF in June

Wu Hu!

CD Review: Wu-Tang Clan -- 8 Diagrams

Wu-Tang Clan

8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal)

Wu-Tang Clan's '8 Diagrams' -- Sneak Review of the Leak!!

Vice's New 'Photo Book': Titties, Filipino Prisons, More Titties

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Beat Kings: The History

The Killah weighs in on a Fishscale;Hiphop flies 'round the world.

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A Son Unique

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Osirus: The Official Mixtape

Get Your Freak On

If you think rapper Dopestyle's debut album is compellingly weird, try talking to the man himself

Planet Rock

Break out the dance pants and hide your jewelry: You're about to meet the Crack Emcee

GZA

Legend of the Liquid Sword

Various Artists

Disco Not Disco 2 (Strut)

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

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The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

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