Parallels between the unsolved murders of Drakeo The Ruler and Mac Dre can tell us a lot about how police approach solving these killings and why most of them never receive closure at all.

Max Bell was thizzin when he wrote this. Bay Area rap comes and goes in the national rap consciousness. In the early ‘90s Digital Underground made impregnating someone in a Burger King bathroom socially acceptable.  Luniz’s “I Got 5 on It” remains in contention for the best smoking song of all time. Hyphy had its […]

Abe Beame wants to know where’s Wallace, String? There are a number of commendable things 27 year old director Ryan Coogler has accomplished with his recently released Fruitvale Station. The fairly breezy character sketch of Oscar Grant on the last day of his life does a lot by simply delivering a realistic depiction of an […]