The biggest go-go bands can be like small companies: Personnel comes and goes, but the overall brand generally retains its standing. Occasionally, however, a lineup change is a Really Big Deal in go-go circles, like rapper Killa Cal's recent decision to leave the WHAT? band and take his firm verbals to Rare Essence, one of the [...]

Wale always seems to find himself embroiled in the lamest controversies. It would seem that the cost of claiming to put an entire city on your back means you're gonna have the entire city on your back.
His latest video, "Pretty Girls," debuted on BET earlier this week and recieved a lot of flack in blog [...]

Did Backyard Band call for a boycott of Wale's "Pretty Girls"?

For those of you who don't have nice enough shoes to get into Love but still want to see rapps tomorrow night ex-Cash Money Millionaire and lifelong Hot Boy B.G. will be holding down DC Star along side Backyard, UCB and Reaction. Check out some classic B Gizzle clips after the jump.

In eight years of DC flea market and junk store hopping I've encountered all sorts of strangeness from jars of urine to bongs made from the skulls of monkeys (I am not even making this up) but as far as local muscial ephemera goes nothing can really top this this confusing pen drawing of Rare [...]

Atlanta based emcee Gucci Mane is not on Facebook or Twitter. His Myspace is a label curated holder space mostly advertising an eighteen month old album that, by all rational accounts, was a flop. And yet, strictly though word of mouth, he's become the most popular rapper in the South and probably the country. Or [...]