From the very moment you first heard the bath water washing over Snoop’s back you knew something special was about to happen Then throw in some Superfly references, a Curtis Mayfield sample and a Last Poets quote and the album’s intro felt more like a movie than the one it borrowed its style from. Doggystyle […]

7 years ago

“Rolling down the street, smokin’ indo, sippin’ on gin and juice” Twenty five years ago today one of Hip Hop’s greatest debut albums was released. Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle is a classic, there’s no two ways about it. When people talk about bodies of work that best represent a culture, a style, a genre, a way of […]

7 years ago

Last month the former Death Row Records head honcho was sentenced to 28 years in prison Marion “Suge” Knight, the man responsible for signing 2Pac to Death Row Records during the mid-90s, has been transferred to a California State Prison to potentially serve out the remainder of his 28 year sentencing for killing a man […]

8 years ago

He might be coming back, you know? So it’s best you brush up on your knowledge now Everyone’s talking about 2Pac right now. Whether it’s because he’s not actually dead, because he’s got new music on the way, or because this year marked the 22nd anniversary since his death, the legendary Hip Hop icon is […]

8 years ago

22 years ago Tupac Shakur was slain in a Las Vegas drive by shooting… or was he? On September 7th 1996 2Pac was taken to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada after being shot four times. The gunshots were the result of a drive by shooting that took place on the corner of Flamingo Road and Koval […]

8 years ago

It looks like it’s a wrap for Suge Knight In the last hour Suge Knight has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for the 2015 hit-and-run death of a man near the set of the movie Straight Outta Compton. Pleading no contest last month just days before his trail was set to begin, he faced […]

8 years ago