This is the third Anderson .Paak album to be named after a California coastal town. So it’s the completion of a loose trilogy, and because it’s the one named after his home town, you might expect Oxnard to be .Paak’s most “personal”,…
I Miss Ya, Nate Dogg: 10 Best Nate Dogg Features
Five years ago yesterday, the hip-hop world was shocked by the loss of a legend in revolutionizing the west coast G-Funk sound of the late 80s and through all of the 90s. The influence of the genre spread through the…
Game forgot where he was 10 years ago on The Documentary 2/2.5
Sequels sometimes come with precautions. When I heard about MMLP2 by Eminem, I was really hesitant, scared, and when it dropped, I was content with what I heard. However, on The Documentary 2, Game is all over the place. Like…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Reaching legendary status in music is predictably difficult because of its unpredictable nature. NWA may not have been the first group of its kind, but it certainly was the group that did it best. Their anger and outrage reverberate from the…
Trailer: Straight Outta Compton
The trailer for Straight Outta Compton is here and if you thought you knew about the streets of Compton in the 1980’s, you were probably wrong. The MTV film was produced by hip-hop icons and original N.W.A. members Ice Cube and…
Watch: N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” music video be remade
“Fuck the police, coming straight from the underground,” perfectly represents what N.W.A. stood for. I don’t mean what the acronym means, but rather their stasis of non-violent protest with music clearly bounded by the first amendment of the United States.…