It's about to be the "1st of tha Month" and the West is riding again. The hip-hop tour "How The West Was Won" is returning on ...

The West Coast has always been a bedrock of hip-hop. But in 2016, that extends past the historical twin pillars of Los Angeles and the Bay Area. There’s talent making waves in Portland and ...

Ray Vaughn clowned Joey Bada$$ over his new diss track "ABK," warning West Coast rappers to stay out of the beef or risk Joey ...

It’s true that the region’s influence is evident in the music of such rappers as Jay-Z (who regularly incorporates West Coast slang in his lyrics) and 50 Cent (an artist influenced by Oakland ...

Joey Bada$$ and Ray Vaughn’s rap beef is Pusha T-approved, which says a whole lot. On Monday (July 21), Clipse appeared on DJ ...

Rapper Open Mike Eagle discusses what made the West Coast the epicenter of hip-hop and how that how that helped influence the sounds from the region today. In the late 80s and early 90s, West ...

West Coast rappers the Game and Snoop Dogg appear together on the “West Coast Resurrection” March issue of XXL magazine, in celebration of the history and revival of West Coast rap.

Ever since artists like Too Short and N.W.A burst on to the scene in the late 1980s, the West Coast has been recognized as a hotbed for incredible and diverse hip-hop talent. Whether it was the ...

Here’s The Times story from Feb. 13, 1997. Rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg of Long Beach and rap mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs of New York came together Wednesday to call for an end to an East Coast ...

As the investigation into the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur ramped up, prosecutors dug into the past and took the grand jury back to some of the most pivotal moments in the East-West Coast rap rivalry.

Twenty years ago this spring, Warren G released Regulate…G Funk Era, a triple-platinum album that helped enshrine the louche, laid-back sound of West Coast hip-hop — “funked out with a ...

The West Coast has always been a bedrock of hip-hop. But in 2016, that extends past the historical twin pillars of Los Angeles and the Bay Area. There's talent making waves in Portland and ...