Hip-hop keeps evolving, but many fans tastes stay the same. Was the 1980s really the best decade? Or is that just the rose-colored glasses talking?
Tag: Hip Hop
Adam Cruz gives LBSU hip-hop with heart.
This weeks noontime events featured the Southgate native and his life story.
Metro Boomin’s ‘Not All Heroes Wear Capes’ is the debut we’ve all been waiting for
After spending the majority of 2016 and 2017 riding high on the top of the Billboard charts, hip-hop producer Leland Tyler Wayne, known by his stage name Metro Boomin, had a relatively quiet 2018, after supposedly retiring earlier in April. Barely seven months later, he’s dropped his debut solo studio[Read More…]
ComplexCon brings fashion and music to Long Beach
The essence of marijuana hanging in the air and the eager faces of shoppers and hip-hop heads were sure markers of this year’s ComplexCon Saturday. The two-day fashion event and music festival garnered thousands of style enthusiasts to its third annual convention who wore the latest trends ranging from yellow[Read More…]
Logic’s fourth installment in the Young Sinatra series brings hard-hitting lyrics
If you’ve ever seen the skit by “Rick and Morty,” used by Logic as the first track in his mixtape “Bobby Tarantino II,” where the two characters argue on which alter-ego of Logic they’re going to listen to, then you may very well be aware of the enigma that is[Read More…]
Crowning the voice of the next generation
On April 16, Kendrick Lamar accomplished an amazing feat by winning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music for his April 2017 album, “DAMN.” This marks the first time the award has been given to an artist outside of the classical or jazz music genres. When you stand back and look[Read More…]
‘Fortnite’ is taking the world by storm
Imagine a dystopian world where 100 people are fighting to survive. Using anything they find from weapons to resources, they ward off other survivors and avoid an impending storm of death. Now, picture the same world but with the participants jumping out of a flying bus, using gliders to land[Read More…]