Thanks to great new singles from Beyoncé and Drake, it’s become the summer of hip hop with house beats. Larger-than-life figures like those two have the power to dominate the conversation and steer ...

Once upon a time, it was Cristal. Then Moet. Patron. Then the electric blue Hpnotiq, then Belvedere and, as recently as last year, Ciroc. Today – and this could change by the time you’re done reading ...

If you're looking to get up to speed on what's happening in the oft-underappreciated Valley hip-hop scene, WTFunk? Fridays is as close as you'll get to a cram school. Every month's WTF Funk? is packed ...

It's a Friday night in Las Vegas and the sounds of hip-hop fill the 5,000-square-foot warehouse near McCarran International Airport. About 200 people have been drawn to the sound and there's no lack ...

It’s a question being asked by local turntablist DJ Element over the house mic, and a crowd of hundreds of people packing the patio of Crescent Ballroom on a Saturday night in late March eagerly ...

Before he topped the charts with 'Baby Got Back', the Seattle-based MC scored a regional hit with an oddball redneck rap ...

Savage,” the new single from Los Angeles artist Ross Victory and Bronx-born singer and performer MARQUE, is already making noise in the hip hop community. This West Coast hip hop and queer rap ...

Over three decades, perhaps the only thing that has remained constant in hip-hop is change. The music’s always-evolving sound has spanned break-beats to rock guitar riffs, sinuous gangster funk to the ...

MONTEBELLO – While Quiet Cannon Montebello attracts golfers and fine-dining enthusiasts during the day, lovers of the nightlife arrive in droves every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings to party ...

What happens on the ground matters — Your support makes it possible. We’re aiming to raise $6,000 by August 10, so we can deepen our reporting on the critical stories unfolding right now: grassroots ...