| The Rap-Up: Week of June 23, 2025 | June 23, 2025 |
Boldy James is one of the game’s gods. Los Angeles stays scorching hot. Chris Crack lusts for Iggy Azalea.
| An Oral History Of The Making of Snoop & Dre’s “Missionary” | January 14, 2025 |
The very real and very true story of the making of Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre's follow-up to "Doggystyle."
| Doctor’s Adversary: Diagnosing Dre’s All-Time Worst Beats | February 10, 2022 |
Did the Super Bowl finally get its halftime show right? In honor of Sunday's big game, Pete Hunt breaks down the times Dr. Dre missed the mark by a few yards.
| Before Eminem Became A Cyborg | September 5, 2018 |
Zilla Rocca remembers the brief moment when Eminem was really fun
Torii MacAdams and Anderson .Paak talk about raising a child while being on the road, underrated musicians, and expectations surrounding fame.
| It’s Not Supposed to Rain at the Beach: On Anderson .Paak’s Malibu | January 28, 2016 |
Emerging from Dr. Dre's shadow, Anderson .Paak releases the formidable Malibu.
The G-Child talks Nate Dogg, collaborations with Mac Dre and Roger Troutman and visiting Tookie in Death Row.
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: The Hateful 8 | April 30, 2015 |
Voting for the Final 4 closes Friday at 5:00 p.m. PST
| America’z Most Complete Artist: A Guide to DJ Quik | October 16, 2014 |
The only guide to the music of DJ Quik that you'll ever need.
| Summer Mixtape: Torii MacAdams | July 10, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams just finished wiping his car down Summer jams are supposed to be breezy, feel-good anthems, girding the assumption that shit is sweet. It’s easy to view summertime with soft-focus nostalgia, especially in Southern California, a supposed paradise marketed to doe-eyed outsiders since the mid-Nineteenth Century. The truth is, the proverbial shit ain’t sweet, […]
