Dr. Dre

Ask anybody who has asked a person of the opposite sex for a date... First impressions are important. In life, a limp first impression can permanently ruin your chances for success, hurt your career or inadvertently create enemies for life. It happe...

It's no secret that Arsenio Hall has long been a huge platform for hip-hop. First premiering in 1989 when the genre had no solid form of exposure, the comedian successfully pioneered into a then uncharted territory. Now in its revival, the show is back with a vengeance, already nabbing many of hip-hop's top acts to appear on the series...

When you can lose $1 million in a dice game and not bat an eye like Diddy did last week, chances are, your bank account is at epic proportions. As if you needed any more confirmation that the hip-hop mogul's stash is on Scrooge McDuck status, Forbes releases its annual list of Cash Kings for 2013 and Diddy was once again at the top of the list...

When you reflect on hip-hop, journeying from the past up until the present, one realizes that there are some rappers who have been in the game quite a long time. Contributors like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, and many more have molded hip-hop over the years crafting the genre into what it is today...

The 25 Best Rick Ross Songs

One of the sublime pleasures in life is diving into the electronic garbage heap that is online auction site, eBay, rooting about and finding a valuable treasure that you must own. It's a cliche to suggest that "there is something for everybody" on the site but sometimes truth is banal...

A common insult tossed at rap is that it is exactly like the WWE meaning that the reality we see and hear from the rappers is manufactured and fake. Rapper beef only exists to sell records and give hip-hop an edge that it would not have you could shine an illuminating light on the factory-processing underbelly of the music industry...

As an installment in Budwiser's "Made Me" series Kendrick Lamar speaks on meeting Dr. Dre for the first time. Divulging on their first studio session, Kendrick tells that working with the rap legend was in fact surreal and served as the inspiration behind his verse on their collaborative anthem "Compton"...

Top 150 People, Places And Things In Hip-Hop

On this day, August 23, in hip-hop history... 2011: In the aftermath of his beef with 50 Cent, Game found himself being quietly shuffled off his mentor, Dr. Dre's, Aftermath Entertainment. Game was obviously pissed that Dre and Interscope chose 50 over himself and the result was Game's 2006 classic, The Doctor's Advocate...

On the strength of some genre-defining albums and a flow that birthed a thousand MC's, Rakim has a clear claim to the status of one of hip-hop's leading lights. But over a 25-plus-year career, and with a dwindling output that has seen him drop only three albums in the past decade and a half, there are a lot of unsolved questions and mysteries surrounding the original God MC—after all, what happene

Anger fades but diamonds are forever. Earlier this week, Jay Z and Dame Dash reunited to be photographed at a party after years of acrimonious relations, thus proving that time can heal even the most bitter wounds. Reunions in hip-hop are a beautiful thing ...