Nate Dogg

InFest STL Tournament Of Champions: Round One, FIGHT!

This Saturday and Sunday, a few dozen local and regional bands perform at InFest STL, a two-day indie festival at 2720 Cherokee. The event is totally free. This is not a battle of the bands, and the acts are in no way competing with each other, but that's no reason not to pit twenty-five confirmed a ... More >>

Rodney King and The Psychotic World We Live In

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Six Best Blatant Drug References In Song

​Drugs are a crucial part of the classic triumvirate of rock & roll; very few things in our society are of enough import to rival "sex." As a result, drugs have been mentioned and implied in countless songs crossing every imaginable genre. I'm sure there's some Indonesian Gamelan track about o ... More >>

Tone Loc Arrested, Making Ironic "Funky Cold Medina" Appreciation More Difficult

​Tone Loc has been arrested for felony domestic assault, apparently, and that news means that a pall will now be cast over your next ironic playthrough of "Wild Thing" or "Funky Cold Medina," let alone his mid-90s performance at EPCOT as "Fud Wrapper." Novelty rappers have a surprisingly long ... More >>

'90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Warren G featuring Nate Dogg, "Regulate"

Folks amost regulated on Nate Dogg this week for stalking and threatening his ex-wife -- but because she never contacted prosecutors, charges were dropped. Warren G |MTV Music

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Michael McDonald, "I Keep Forgettin'"

Rock the Vote!

Various Artists

The Very Best of Death Row (The Row)

Behold the Forty

A paean to the big bad bottle

God Save the Scene

Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip-hop.

Snoop Dogg

R&G - Rhythm and Gangsta: The Masterpiece (Geffen)

213

The Hard Way (TVT)

Eve

Eve-Olution (Ruff Ryders/Interscope)

Attitude Check

Four discs trace the development of the original gangstas

Snoop Dogg

Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ (Priority/Doggy Style)

Best St. Louisan of 2000

Nelly

Eminem

The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope)