Eazy-E

Eazy-E and Ol' Dirty Bastard Holograms will Headline Rock the Bells. We're More Excited About Snow Tha Product

Rock The Bells season is officially here. This Tuesday, promoters Guerilla Union held their launch party/press conference for this year's festival. Hosted by HOT97's Peter Rosenberg, the festivities started off with the longstanding tradition of freestyle extraordinaire MC Supernatural rapping the 2 ... More >>

Neeks, Night Game Cult - El Sibil - 6/16/12

Neeks, Night Game Cult El Sibil Saturday, June 16 Often, when there are six people on stage at a hip-hop show, you're in trouble. You get some limp attempts at verses, some blunted flow, too many stoned rappers bumping into each other. Neeks, who performed at Oak Cliff art space El Sibil as part of ... More >>

Legendary Dallas Rapper D.O.C. Starts His Return To The Top

The Story of N.W.A.'s "Boyz-n-the-Hood" and The First Time It Ever Earned Radio Airplay

​Today marks the 20th anniversary of John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood, the film that, in many ways, put the tragic world of Los Angeles street culture into our nation's collective consciousness. Really, it's a point relative to nothing other than the fact that it might make a few of us feel old. A ... More >>

Dallas-Born The D.O.C. Speaks Out Against Dr. Dre, Shares Insight Into Death Row's Launch

​It's easy, sometimes, to forget who the greatest rapper Dallas ever spawned is -- especially when considering that, for the past 20 years, he's worked in a largely behind-the-scenes role, ghost-writing for other rappers and working closely as a mentor to genre luminaries Dr. Dre and Eminem.But, n ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 13: DJ Bad Holly

​DJ Bad Holly admits that she got her start at DJing through a complete and utter accident. Holly Evans, a.k.a. Bad Holly, volunteered to DJ a party at Doublewide last year at the last minute--and to her surprise received and abundance of positive feedback. "Several people I'd never met came up to ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Decadent Dub Team, Fracturing the Mash-Up

DDTers Jason Wolford, EZ Eddie D and Jeff Liles​ The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the ear ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' W ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Allen Ginsberg’s East Dallas Drive-By

Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly located upstairs in a wooden 50’s-e ... More >>

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

The Game

LAX (Geffen)

Billboard Runs A Ruthless Records Retrospective, Calls The D.O.C.'s "No One Can Do It Better" One Of The Label's Seminal Hits

Thug Life

Obituary for a Storefront

The Game

The Documentary (Aftermath/G-Unit (Interscope)

Jam Sessions III

Wednesday, June 9, at the Black Forest Theater

Still Doing It Better

The D.O.C. is the best coach in the rap game

Stoopid

Plus: On Top of the World, True Colors, Miller on a Mission

Straight Outta Left Field

The Dallas Morning News says N.W.A. was "militant." The real answer? N.O.

Gimme Some Mo

Corn Mo makes an appearance on Total Request Live

Forgot About D.O.C.

The D.O.C. is ready to take on the world. And he's bringing Dallas with him.

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

Boring Wood

Three young friends come of age by talkin' loud and sayin' nothing

Beat down

Dallas' hip-hop scene is more vital than ever, but you'd never know it: no clubs, no radio, no major-label deals. But the musicians, some of this city's best, refuse to give up.

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

Dead man rapping

"The D.O.C." returns with a new record and a score to settle

The Dr. is out

Dre and Snoop Dogg, the boys who cried wolf, cancel yet another Dallas show

Deep six: The ungrateful dead