Sixteen years ago, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton and his partner-in-rhyme, Andre "3000" Benjamin, single-handedly put Southern hip-hop on the map as the rap group OutKast with the debut of their album, "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik."
Big Boi talks about his new album "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty," and why it doesn't include Andre 3000.
The lawyer for Marion "Suge" Knight insists the rap music mogul did not point a gun at a man Wednesday night in the Los Angeles area.
Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of pointing a gun at a man, authorities in California said.
Andre Young Jr. was found unresponsive in his bed in August
"He was one of the nicest, most down-to-earth guys I have ever met," a former classmate tells PEOPLE
An autopsy doesn't reveal Andre Young Jr.'s official cause of death
The hip-hop producer "is mourning the loss of his son," Andre Young Jr., says his rep
Dr. Dre's 20-year-old son has died, the rapper's publicist said Tuesday
Tech writer Josh Quittner reviews Dr. Dre's new Beats headphones that deliver high definition sound and mute the competition
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million
With an album, a concert tour, movies and merchandise carrying her name, Hilary Duff is one of the busiest 19-year-olds around. Her latest adventure has her creating original designs for a virtual doll community. PEOPLE caught up with Duff to dish on her latest project and find out what it's like to be one of Hollywood's hottest teens.
Fleur de Lilleupdated: Wed Jan 10 2007 13:25:00
Just an hour by train from Paris, the former capital of Flanders marries Gallic traditions with the 21st-century design sensibility of its Low Country neighbors.
A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad.
A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad. These days of course the freeway ain't so free. The 16-lane snarl-up is an occupational hazard for L.A. commuters who reputedly total up 99 million miles a day between them. Autopia has become autogeddon, complete with a sub-culture of car chases, car-jackings and drive-by shootings. Built as far west as geography would allow and hemmed in only by the Pacific, LA is a crazy town where manifest destiny has been given free reign, where anyone can turn up and claim to be someone -- if their agent is any good. It's a city of angels and demons, where a thin sheen of plastic surgery perfection barely conceals a seedy underworld of hustlers, dealers and movers on the make. That side of the city has long fascinated crime writers from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy and, more recently
It's been more than three years since Busta Rhymes' last album, a veritable eternity where rap is concerned. For a while there, it was starting to feel as if Rhymes might wind up like Coolio, a once-vital artist rendered irrelevant by a too-long hiatus.
Rapper 50 Cent sure knows how to make the best of a bad situation.
Rock lyrics are not meant for reading. Something about the page -- sans voice and charged delivery -- flattens even the best song and makes it, well, silly.
You won't often hear the names of rapper Dr. Dre and the MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte uttered in the same sentence. Unless, of course, you're talking to 29-year-old Darien Dash. He's equally...
When I was 12, my dad gave me 10 shares of IBM. Pointing to the columns of tiny numbers in the business section of the Sacramento Bee, he explained that at $66 a share, the total cash value of my "...
Word to Senator Bob Dole: get with it, bro. The Republican presidential hopeful recently scored big points bashing rap music and record companies such as Time Warner (parent of Fortune's publisher)...
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