LACMA's next big project: L.A. hip-hop

This week, L.A. hip-hop artist Murs and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will launch a six-month exploration of the city's hip-hop culture with the series 'Through the Mic.' Murs' own group 3 Melancholy Gypsys will stage its first performance in about five years Thursday night, and a monthly concert, each presented in front of the museum's "Urban Light" sculpture on Wilshire Boulevard, will ...

The Platinum League, First Ever Interactive Hip Hop Trading Cards, in Stores Now

LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's first interactive hip-hop trading cards are now available in more than 20,000 retail stores nationwide, including Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Hot Topic, ...

Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA

The hip-hop music site the authorities shuttered for more than a year without explanation lashed out Monday at the recording industry and the federal government, likening the taking of the site to a "digital Guantanamo."

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement

Federal authorities seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four "pre-release" music tracks, and gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recording industry delays in confirming infringement, according to court records obtained by Wired.

El-P Blasts Drone-Filled Dystopia on Cancer for Cure

Drones overhead and smartphones in hand, we drift through panoptic lives and push-button wars. It sometimes feels like most songwriters couldn't give a crap, but not hip-hop visionary El-P: He's still raging with feeling against the machine, from within the increasingly dense machine music he painstakingly crafts. The Brooklyn rapper's latest round of literate but inflammatory blasts comes on ...