Hip hop

Even if you don’t care about Kanye West

Loza Alexander’s rap now sits at number two on iTunes

I can’t think of a single other celebrity in the world who would have had the balls to do what Kanye does in this interview

Pop was invented for teenagers, and it’s wholly appropriate that it should have outposts that are completely remote to me.

Kanye West is more than halfway in to the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame — if his politics don’t block the way. This extraordinary rapper-producer first won over a worldwide audience with the 2004 anthem ‘Jesus Walks’, disrupted hip-hop’s bling-bling materialism with the us-vs-them challenge of his Jay-Z collaboration Watch the Throne, and then released the … Read more

Grade: B+ Another ex-Long Beach crip replanted in pleasant Orange County via the conduit of very large amounts of record company money and thus now able to draw on his time as a gangsta, while telling us all it was a very naughty thing to have done. The difference between Staples and much of the … Read more