West Coast Hip-Hop pioneer Lonzo Williams has released a new DVD detailing the rise of the Compton/Los Angeles rap scene, AllHipHop.com has learned. Williams, who is often referred to as the Godfather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compton isn’t just a line in a bar or a movie title. The Los Angeles suburb had a major part in shaping how the world hears West ...

COMPTON, Calif. (CNS) -- A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in a wrongful death suit brought against Marion "Suge" Knight by relatives of a man run over and killed by the former rap mogul with a ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rap mogul Suge Knight has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection to last week's fatal hit-and-run in Compton. If convicted, Knight faces up to life in state prison.

Over there, in that desperate part of town with the high concentration of poor blacks, dreams had long been deferred. Everything around them seemed to validate their dehumanization – retrograde ...

COMPTON -- His name is Jason Martin. But most people know him by his stage persona, "Problem." Initially, it was just a cool rap name. Today, at 35, he's lives by his motto: Do what's right. Problem ...

The former Aftermath Entertainment artist boasts about being the top spitter from the CPT. Compton, California is one of the capitals of Hip Hop culture. The city produced rap stars like Dr. Dre, Eazy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. anthems like “F**k The Police” actually seems now to be more prescient and hold more resonance than even in 1988, when this local ...

When the ragged, faded tennis courts needed to be fixed, Compton turned to one thing that the city has a bounty of: celebrities. One of Serena Williams’ corporate sponsors opened up its wallet to ...

Like a lot of hip-hop artists, Marleik Walker, better known as Mar Mar, raps about stacking paper. But he's doing it to save up for college. On Mar Mar on Fleek (2016), his debut mixtape, the ...

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