Soon, you can be cruising down Eazy Street in your ’64. In September, the Compton City Council unanimously voted to rename the 100 block of Auto Drive South, which runs off of Alameda Street and into ...

“Straight Outta Compton,” “Carol” and “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” won awards for their music supervision on Thursday night at the sixth annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in Los Angeles.

Robert Palmer Watkins in 'Compton' music video. Photo Courtesy of Palmer. Robert Palmer Watkins in 'Compton' music video. Photo Courtesy of Palmer. Actor and musician Robert Palmer Watkins (“General ...

The Game has relinquished his self-appointed "best rapper from Compton" crown to Kendrick Lamar. Game appears to pass the title to K.Dot on "Whatever," the intro track to his new mixtape Gangsta ...

Seeing as Straight Outta Compton is the much-anticipated biopic about NWA, the iconic hip-hop group, one can imagine there was a lot of pressure to create a soundtrack just as legendary as the movie's ...

1992: Gangsta rap has a long lineage that can be traced for decades. The heart and soul of the sub-genre was birthed in Philadelphia by Schooly D, according to some, but most fans agree that it ...

The West Coast hip-hop community is mourning the loss of DJ Mike T, a foundational member of Compton’s Most Wanted. His death was confirmed by fellow group member MC Eiht via Instagram. No cause of ...