When one thinks of hip-hop and rap music, there are few people whose influence on the development of rap as a commercial art form that is as significant as Dr. Dre. Born as Andre Young in Compton ...

See for yourself by watching “Straight Outta Compton,” the 2015 Academy Award-nominated film about the rise and fall of ...

When Dr. Dre and DJ Yella met O’Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube - the three created the gangsta rap group N.W.A., whose debut album, Straight Outta Compton, became a smash hit.

With the iconic Los Angeles-based music label Death Row Records making headlines again, here is what to know about the label and its famous owner.

Could Drake's worst nightmare come true by Kendrick Lamar opening the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles? The project chairman ...

A war of words is brewing between two men connected to West Coast hip-hop history. In an interview behind bars with “The Art of Dialogue,” Suge Knight claims Snoop Dogg is destroying ...

Relatives of a man run over and killed by Marion “Suge” Knight in 2015 are opposing a motion by the imprisoned former rap ...

As Capitol Music Group chair/CEO from 2021 to 2024, Jubelirer was the first female chief executive in the company’s 80-plus-year history. The veteran music attorney stepped down from that role last ...

A child of Compton, a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by gang warfare, the author of 'Not Like Us' is using his fame to call ...

Kendrick Lamar released what's widely considered to be his masterpiece: the era-defining, chart-topping To Pimp a Butterfly.

Convicted felon Marion “Suge” Knight Jr., 59, has fired the latest shot at Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus Jr., 53, in their dispute over the legendary Death ...