Subject: Dirty South

• KC Singer Janelle Monáe Signs to Bad Boy Records, Invents Cybersoul

  April 8, 2008

• Q&A with Kemet Coleman, aka the Phantom, aka KC Rapper You Should Know

  April 25, 2008

• The Download: New Team9 MP3s

  Neil Mason is best known for mashing up other artists' work (at times, to the chagrin of record labels), but he isn't afraid of originality. From his Team9 website: "I've spent the last few months neck deep on an original album - the first since 2003. 'We Dont Disco' is an electronic soundtrack to the days of my life. A little bit ambient, a little bit pop, a little bit dance......its a little bit kind of thing. If you like it then great, its free to download and completely copyright free - y

  December 17, 2008

• The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

  BY ANNIE ZALESKIPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the Top 40 -- or what passes for hit-oriented radio in this topsy-turvy musical climate -- while proving that accessibility doesn't necessarily preclude creativity. CHRIS BR

  December 18, 2008

• Best Place to Get a Million-Dollar Smile

  January 27, 2000

• Concert Review: Lil Wayne at Sprint Center, 1/09/09

  "I wouldn't care if you was a prostitute," Lil' Wayne assured the many ladies of the sold-out crowd at the Sprint Center Friday night. As the rapper delivered a brief but heartfelt defense of a love that transcends street-walking during the middle of his set, it was clear that the cheering audience was hooked. While Wayne couldn't bring his eight Grammy nominations for Tha Carter III with him to the stage, the remarkably small New Orleans native performed with a swaggering confidence and disarm

  January 12, 2009

• The Download: New Mick Boogie Mixtape

  The 51st annual Grammy Awards is set to kick off on Sunday, so the duo who brought us Viva La Hova is providing us with an audio crib sheet. From the Mick Boogie website. "Ironically, looking back at our projects the past 12 months, it seems we were definitely barking up the right tree... since Coldplay, Jay-Z and Adele all were nominated for multiple Grammys. We decided to go through the list of nominees and work with our favorite producers to come up with some really cool takes on your favo

  February 3, 2009

• Shelby Lynne

  December 25, 2003

• The Doggfather

  January 1, 2004

• Juvenile

  February 19, 2004

• Various Artists

  April 29, 2004

• 30 Rap: Having parted ways with Tech N9ne’s Strange Music, Skatterman and Snug Brim get their grown man on

  February 26, 2009

• Ratatat

  August 28, 2008

• How Not to Be a Rap Star

  Flying high on Ecstasy, Grey Goose and his own hype, Paul Mussan blew through 100 G's in six months.

  March 6, 2008

• Clipse says 'We Got It 4 Cheap' — and means it

  February 21, 2008

• New Year's Eve at Sake

  December 27, 2007

• Served!

  The Soul Servers dish out

  the diff-hop.

  June 22, 2006

• Stay Crunk

  October 11, 2007

• Screamfest '07

  August 9, 2007

• Beating the Rap

  November 23, 2006

• About a Boi

  August 24, 2006

• Diplo

  July 27, 2006

• Jump Off

  July 20, 2006

• Mayday Beach 2006

  June 1, 2006

• She's On It

  KCK girl Janelle Monae has tapped into her own kryptonite.

  May 4, 2006

• Juelz Santana

  January 5, 2006

• Bun B

  November 17, 2005

• Tech N9ne

  Wednesday, November 16, at the Setlist in Warrensburg.

  November 10, 2005

• Webbie

  August 4, 2005

• Boyz N Da Hood

  Boyz N Da Hood(Block Entertainment/Bad Boy Records)

  July 28, 2005

• Ying Yang Twins

  U.S.A.: United State of Atlanta (TVT)

  July 14, 2005

• DJ Shad

  Sundays at the Jazzhaus.

  May 26, 2005

• Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz

  Crunk Juice (TVT)

  December 2, 2004

• Mike Watt and the Secondmen.

  Monday, September 27, at the Grand Emporium.

  September 23, 2004

• Dream On

  Oh, what a wonderful world this would be if rock stars had their own Olympics.

  August 12, 2004

• Cool School

  At college, KU's Carlos Centeno learned an important lesson: It's not who you are but what you give away.

  May 20, 2004

• Cee-Lo

  Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine (Arista)

  April 22, 2004

• Rez Affiliated

  Cherokee rapper and actor Litefoot puts an indigenous spin on hip-hop.

  April 8, 2004

• Check Ya Later

  Hey, 2003, don't let the door smack you on the ass.

  January 1, 2004

• Outkast

  Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (Arista)

  October 2, 2003

• Chingy

  Jackpot (Capitol)

  August 28, 2003

• You Know We're Right

  These 50 songs can lead music fans to multi-genre nirvana.

  January 2, 2003

• Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections

  Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections (Arista)

  May 30, 2002

• Outkast

  Big Boi and Dre Present ... Outkast (Arista/LaFace)

  January 3, 2002

• Buzzbox

  Summer Jam 2001

  May 17, 2001

• Outkast

  Stankonia (LaFace/Arista)

  November 16, 2000

• Sunday, March 26

  The Cash Money/Ruff Ryders Tour at Kemper Arena

  March 23, 2000

• Lil Wayne

  August 20, 2009

• Don't do anything "out of line" tonight at Starlight, warns Action News

  Seems that Starlight officials are anticipating trouble at tonight's Lil Wayne concert. According to a report filed by NBC Action News reporter Victoria Swoboda, the Starlight is upping security, planning to use "different procedures." Nicole Reinertson​ Says the report: The new procedures are targeted to control the crowds. Officials are concerned about cruising and they also fear that some crowd members that enjoy Lil Wayne might also be inclined to do something out of line in the park

  August 24, 2009

• KCTV knows the little girls understand Lil Wayne

  Thanks, KCTV Channel 5, for never letting the facts get in the way of some good, scary hearsay. Nicole Reinertson​After teasing Monday's 10 p.m. newscast with the onscreen graphic "Overland Park woman raped in parking lot" (that's a paraphrase, but consider the CSI: Miami audience hooked), Channel 5 opened its broadcast not with that or with coverage of Sen. Claire McCaskill's health-care town hall that evening. Instead, last night's lead story was that the Lil Wayne concert already under

  August 25, 2009