Dr. Dre News

A protege of Dr. Dre, rapper Eminem emerged in 1999 as one of the most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre.

As the embodiment of '90s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

The hip-hop heavyweights' pre-teen offspring have formed their own band, OMG Girlz.

A RAP about Penarth has become an internet hit, thanks to the efforts of three lyrical poets from Cardiff.

The projections were accurate. 50 Cent 's potential last album from Interscope did not debut at #1. Instead, Before I Self Destruct , which included two bonus DVDs and an extra week on iTunes , sold 160,000 units.

Rakim 'Covers' HHC Digital 005 " Available now for free download, HHC Digital 005 is headed up by Rakim.

It's been 10 years since Hip-Hop's favorite antagonist unofficially released Power of the Dollar , the introductory EP which sparked controversy with "How to Rob," a lyrical thrill-ride that jacked the music industry elite of the day.

Last year saw the long-awaited release of Guns N' Roses ' Chinese Democracy , an album that was first discussed in earnest some time around 1994 and finally hit store shelves 14 years later.

Loading ... MCs Vader, Skywalker, Palpatine and Trooper are back with another edition of the hit animated series Star Wars Gangsta Rap.

The old saying goes: "Time is money" -- and it's not worth Dr. Dre 's time to collect the money owed to him by the State of California.

Too many indie rap albums feel like they're trying too hard to sound important, forward-thinking, conscious or whatever ideal the underdog MC is straining for.

Best Buy has joined forces with rap legend Dr. Dre to introduce a new in-store selection of DJ equipment called Club Beats.

Best Buy Co. Inc. is launching in-store sections for DJ equipment, building on last year's move to add sections devoted to music instruments.

"Hegel, Joyce, Fukuyama, Jesus Jones: so goes culture's declension." This is the critical sentence of the academic and pop critic Joshua Clover's extraordinary work of political aesthetics.

Fifteen years ago, Warren G. helped introduce the world to the California g-funk sound with his biggest hit, "Regulate." G. - real name Warren Griffin - is still on top of his game, if not on top of the charts.

"No one can flow like I can," says the 27-year-old rapper Freddie Gibbs , the one musician in hip-hop New Yorker scribe Sasha Frere-Jones "would put money on right now." "I met Kanye West before and he didna TMt really like my music.

Humble and nonchalant as ever, Warren G is cooler than Miles Davis smoking an Alaskan cucumber.

Lil Jon 's long-delayed Crunk Rock album has almost become as mythical as Dr. Dre 's Detox --as both producers have been working on the respective projects for years--but Jon recently revealed he's finishing his rap/rock hybrid.

Warren G. brings his patented G-Funk brand of West Coast rap Saturday night to Planet Gemini in Monterey in a show hosted by Jammin' 97.9. When Def Jam Records celebrated its 25th anniversary on VH1's "Hip-Hop Honors" broadcast, only one artist represented for the West Coast - Warren G. His single, "Regulate," with its haunting Michael McDonald ...

Hip-Hop super producer Dr. Dre has weighed in on controversial talk show host Rush Limbaugh.