Being a black male who raps and is open about his sexuality is still a big, controversial deal in post-Frank Ocean 2012, if the…
Last Monday, June 11, loyal fans got down as Lil Kim set the microphone on fire on her Return of the Queen tour. To…
If certain other Bay Area-repping female rappers don't quite live up to ideas of what an MC should be, there's always Hopie Spitshard. The…
Dominant Legs: Sweetly chiming San Francisco indie-pop. Main Attrakionz: Stony Oakland “cloud rap.” In the balkanized, pre-millenial music world, never would these twain have…
V-Nasty entered 2012 with the stench of BAYTL all over her. A collaboration with her favorite rapper, Gucci Mane, the mixtape was received by…
Adam WarRock, dubbed the Internet's foremost comic book rapper, rolled through Berkeley's 924 Gilman on Sunday to promote his second full-length album You Dare…
There was a time, back in the late '80s, when the legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One was a candidate for the title of Greatest Rapper…
Instrumental hip-hop should be banned. It's the banal, meandering stepchild of hip-hop. It's a front-runner for the dubious honor of being the world's most…
“Your girl, she ready,” goes the titular refrain here, and after hearing this new track from the Bay Area's Heart Break Gang, well, yours…
DaVinci represents the Fillmore passionately. The rapper claims roots in the area going back to his grandmother's time, and has traced the changes in…