Wu-Tang Clan

Ghostface: Show Preview

DJ ChaunceyCC on the Spooky Side of Hip-Hop, and Stopping with the Stupid Subgenres Already

East Coast-rasied hip-hop DJ-producer ChaunceyCC began his career in a very straightforward way: "I became a DJ pretty much out of the sheer fact that I can't rap, and everyone else I grew up around could." The observation paid off, as the selecter born Chauncey Johnson has since toured with indie r ... More >>

Elvis Honored in the Bacon-y King Cookie

The two locations of chef Ryan Scott's eatery Market & Rye are known for having creative desserts such as endless remixes of Twinkies and fully loaded cookies like the Kitchen Sink, which carries an arsenal of pretzels, potato chips, butterscotch chips, and chocolate chips. A new cookie variety is a ... More >>

"The Man with the Iron Fists": The RZA Gets Good and Weird

Botanical Bakery's Got a Spicy Little Number

Sonoma County's Botanical Bakery offers teeny tiny shortbread cookies ("Shorties") that are about the size of a quarter and flavored with herbs and spices such as fennel pollen and lavender. The latest variety, Chocolate Chipotle, is the feistiest and most potentially addicting of all the Shorties. ... More >>

The RZA: Show Preview

Wu-Tang Clan-Inspired C.R.E.A.M. Has 'Secret' Menu Items

Named after the debut single from the New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan, Berkeley's C.R.E.A.M. (Cookies Rule Everything Around Me) slangs cookies and ice cream sandwiches instead of beats and rhymes. C.R.E.A.M. lets patrons customize their orders so that one may select two different cookies for their ... More >>

Signal to Noise: Five Hot Dance Cuts From Local Producers

With all the music floating around the Internet, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that there are a ton of talented local producers. This week's edition of Signal to Noise is riffing off that theme, with five tracks from Bay Area-related artists that produce in such diverse fields as house, U ... 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 >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

Watch the Bathrooms: Bay Area Rapper Durt Reynolds Puts the Durt in Durty

​ Ask and you shall receive. Or, rather, leave your four-track promo CD by the sink in the men's room at Mezzanine during a Wu-Tang show and I shall bring it home and listen to it. This one's for you, Bay Area rapper Durt Reynolds.

Ghostface Killah talks about God on "The Apollo Kids"

Small Black: Show Preview

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

In Print: Classic Hip-Hop Albums Performed Live, Wavves' Surf-Punk, and Rappers in the Shadow of Hyphy

​The lineup for this year's Rock the Bells hip-hop festival has the likes of Snoop, Slick Rick, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim and even the Wu-Tang Clan all performing classic hip-hop albums in their entirety. In our print edition this week, Tamara Palmer takes a look back at each album's considerabl ... 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 >>

Good Rappers Who've Made Terrible Actors

The trend of rappers shifting into acting is nothing new, and in theory it makes sense. Both roles focus on emotive storytelling, right? Unfortunately, that transition isn't always a smooth one--a point hammered home repeatedly by the new film Just Wright, starring Queen Latifah and Common. It's 100 ... More >>

Behind the Beat with DJ Dials (Change the Beat, Soundpieces)

​Never let it be said that Noah Bennet Cunnigham is lazy. His hustle knows no bounds. He DJs, designs airport art installations, produces tracks, and manages our premiere glitch-hop outfit, Lazer Sword. As DJ Dials, he explores the depths of futuristic booty tunes and next-level bass music with ed ... More >>

Stretch Armstrong

Souls of Mischief Announce Montezuma's Revenge

Steve LopezMontezuma's Revenge Cover Art​ Legendary Oakland hip-hop group Souls of Mischief yesterday announced the forthcoming release of their new album, Montezuma's Revenge. Produced by the equally-legendary Prince Paul (De La Soul, Gravediggaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School), the album fea ... More >>

Rock the Bells

Outside Lands Asks Public for Headliner Suggestions

Now that the Beastie Boys have pulled out of Outside Lands, announcing the bad news that MCA has to undergo treatment for cancer of the parotid (salivary) gland, the festival has turned to the public to ask what artists should be considered as replacements for Sunday night's big finale. Outside Land ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Guillermo

With each of these DJ Q&As we do, it's becoming increasingly obvious: Sweater Funk has become a hot night (and in that steamy basement venue, we mean that phrase in more ways than one) for San Francisco funk. When the rest of the city goes to bed early for the big week ahead, DJs and dancers ali ... More >>

Hip Hop Chess Federation Presents "Mind Over Matter II"

EKAphotographyHip to be Square: RZA vs. CasualIf you thought chess was a game for old dudes with goiters, Market Street hustlers, and nerdy four-eyes kids, think again. The South Bay-based Hip Hop Chess Federation (HHCF) has completely redefined the image chess by making it a kid-friendly, urban art ... 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

Top'R

The Marathon of Shame (Zero Friends/Gurp City)

Strippers, Escort, and New Year's Eve plans: Your Friday Morning Pre-Party

Strippers, Escort, and New Year's Eve plans: Your Friday Morning Pre-Party

Strippers, Escort, and New Year's Eve plans: Your Friday Morning Pre-Party

Jay-Z's New Title: Most Overrated Rapper Ever

Rock the Bells Rises in SF

Porn, Skateboarding and True Love: the Chris Nieratko Long Interview

His Writing Technique is Unstoppable

Brian Coleman gets hip hop's golden years on the record

Ghostface Killah

More Fish (Def Jam)

The heavy hitters of hip hop jingle your bells

Training Daze

The drills and thrills of Boot Camp Clik

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

My, what big beats you have: Slick Rick, the Mad Professor, and the DJ who brought us "Me So Horny."

Daring duos! Ladytronners Mira Aroyo and Reuben Wu! DJ AM and Travis Barker! GZA and DJ Muggs!

BeatBox

Mu brings the techno stompdown to Rx; Mighty hosts a hip hop jammy-jam block party

Ex Ed

Our inhibitions are lowered, our ex is seated across from us. What to do ...

BeatBox

Aesop Rock makes the unintelligible, well, entertaining; the legendary Shapeshifters shuffle up from L.A.

BeatBox

"Real People" is a breath of fresh air at the Oxygen Bar; Ghostface Killah proves he's Wu Tang's No. One.

Various Artists

James Brown's Funky People, Volume 3 (Polydor)

Reviews

Rico Bell & the Snake Handlers' Dark Side of the Mersey, The Mekons' Where Were You?, and Stefon Harris' BlackActionFigure

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