Know what I'm doing right now while watching this E-40 video? Having flashbacks of being ten years old, sitting in my suburban Northern California bedroom, reading comic books and listening to E-40 jams that sounded just like this. Who knows, I may have even been playing with my WWF action figure ... More >>
Tamara PalmerWe pulled up to the bar at Farmerbrown the other night in the mood for a Slurricane, basically a take on the New Orleans Hurricane with a Yay Area twist. The name is a tribute to a 1995 song by legendary local rapper E-40 and his group The Click. Because we like to drink our hip- ... More >>
Since many recent Next Big Things in rap have proven disappointing -- see Wale, Asher Roth and B.o.B. -- it might be time to consider the possibility that hip-hop tastemakers don't know what to look for in the first place. Here's an alternative to the critical consensus on rap. Yesterday, we ... More >>
Bay Area hip hop ponders a Cristal boycott
