Subject: Dr. Dre

• At the Temple

  March 30, 2006

• Klaxons at the Bottleneck

  October 8, 2007

• Monday Music Junkie: Raveonettes, Ghostface, Brian Wilson, Jacko covers and more

  December 3, 2007

• Concert Review: Snoop Dogg

  July 11, 2008

• The Ween Abides: 10 Reasons Ween's Better Than Your Favorite Band

  July 11, 2008

• Spirit Fest

  Liberty Memorial -- Saturday, September 2, 2000

  September 7, 2000

• Busted Rhymes: The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  By Ben Westhoff Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or two in 2008. Here are the most preposterous rap songs of 2008. RICK ROSS, FEATURING T-PAIN "The Boss" (Def Jam) Though Rick Ross claimed on his debut album, Port of Miami, to know

  December 29, 2008

• Nature versus nurture versus Napster

  June 29, 2000

• Kansas City, Here We Don't Come

  July 20, 2000

• Echo

  September 27, 2001

• Death Row Records Auctioned Off

  Oh, Sugar Bear, how the mighty have fallen! In addition to watching himself get knocked out during a street fight on YouTube, the oft-incarcerated Marion "Suge" Knight now gets to watch his label, Death Records, vanish from his cold, calloused hands. Variety magazine reported that Wide Awake Entertainment bought Death Row Records for $18 million during an auction in Los Angeles last Thursday. Last July, another label, Global Music, had agreed to buy Sugar Bear's gangster baby for $24 million.

  January 20, 2009

• Mixed Nuts

  August 22, 2002

• 50 Cent

  February 20, 2003

• The Download: New Raekwon MP3

  For a few years now, Raekwon has been promising a sequel to his classic 1995 solo LP, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and it looks like he might finally make good in March. No word on what record label will sponsor it since his split from Dr. Dre's Aftermath imprint, but a couple of new tracks have recently surfaced, including "Back from the Slums," which features fellow Wu-Tang members Ghostface and Method Man. Download it below and stream another new one at Raekwon's MySpace page. MP3: Raekwon,

  February 4, 2009

• Obie Trice

  January 15, 2004

• Sounds Good

  October 14, 2004

• Concert Review: Blitzen Trapper, Alela Diane

  As the buildings turned Mass Street into a piercing cold wind tunnel, a crowd of Lawrencians took refuge inside the Jackpot Music Hall. Once inside, in the dim red bar light and the sweltering heat, that same crowd found themselves wishing they'd left their coats in the car. Alela Diane came on first, backed by a four-piece band: hairy dude on bass, cute girl singing harmonies, red-headed Greg Oden look-alike on drums, and Alela's dad wailing on mandolin and lead guitar. Alela Diane possesse

  March 11, 2009

• The grass grows around absent-minded rapper Devin the Dude

  March 19, 2009

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

  February 26, 2009

• The best chestnuts of Wakarusa 2008

  June 5, 2008

• Uh Huh Her

  May 1, 2008

• Purple Reign

  Princess Superstar, already royalty overseas, plans her domestic takeover.

  April 11, 2002

• Showin' Up

  Edwin Morales knows how to start a party, even when smelly potatoes are involved.

  April 19, 2007

• Something's Fishy

  October 27, 2005

• Bloody Shame

  Only 50 Cent's bank account has grown on his perfunctory new LP, The Massacre.

  March 17, 2005

• The Game

  The Documentary (Aftermath)

  January 27, 2005

• The Gza Strip

  Hip-hop strikes familiar chords in our Israeli sister city.

  January 6, 2005

• Eminem

  Encore (Interscope)

  November 18, 2004

• Work It Out

  De La Soul is still grinding 15 years after Three Feet High and Rising.

  November 4, 2004

• Western Expansion

  Superproducer Kanye West is now the hottest rapper in the world. Just ask him.

  September 16, 2004

• 213

  The Hard Way (TVT)

  August 26, 2004

• Bringin' It

  Fed up with crappy night-life options, Ken Lumpkins and a few thousand locals have taken matters into their own hands.

  April 15, 2004

• Dethroned Prince

  Prince Paul attacks commercial hip-hop by co-opting it.

  June 19, 2003

• Eminem

  The Eminem Show (Interscope)

  June 27, 2002

• Rhyme and Reason

  With a stunning return to form, Nas proves he's Still got skills.

  June 6, 2002

• The Best of Music 2001

  Movie reviewers have it so easy

  December 27, 2001

• Mary J. Blige

  No More Drama (MCA)

  November 15, 2001

• Eve

  Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope)

  March 29, 2001

• Various Artists

  Vinyl Exams (Epic)

  December 28, 2000

• Back to Basics

  Duck! The wacky trio Ugly Duckling is hittin' hip-hop heads hard.

  November 9, 2000

• Canibus

  2000 B.C. (Universal)

  October 12, 2000

• DJ Quik

  Balance & Options(ARISTA)

  July 20, 2000

• Del the Funky Homosapien

  Wednesday, June 21, at The Bottleneck

  June 15, 2000

• The other 'F word'

  Eminem's mind-blowing Marshall Mathers LP, filled with homophobic and misogynist content as well as musical brilliance, promises to spark feverish free-speech debates.

  June 1, 2000

• Chronic zydeco

  Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers

  April 20, 2000

• THA EASTSIDAZ

  SNOOP DOGG PRESENTS THA EASTSIDAZ(TVT)

  March 2, 2000

• FUNKMASTER FLEX & BIG KAP

  THE TUNNEL(DEF JAM)

  February 10, 2000

• Award-winning stupidity

  The Grammys have become a dumbed-down popularity contest instead of a legitimate celebration of excellence.

  January 13, 2000

• Wayward Q&A: Grandmaster Flash

  Yes the Grandmaster Flash. The first man ever to use the turntable as an instrument was kind enough to call our headquarters last week to field questions about his life, from the first record he ever cut to what's hot on the dance floor now to his starring role in the new game DJ Hero. Without the pioneering discoveries Flash (born in Barbados as Joseph Saddler and brought up in the Bronx) made in the early '70s experimenting with vinyl records, hip-hop as we know it today would not exist. Cre

  July 23, 2009

• Dr. Dre's The Chronic to Get Re-Lit

  Dr. Dre's The Chronic will be re-released on September 1 as The Chronic Re-Lit, according to MTV. This is all Death Row's doing, and according to the article, Dre wasn't involved at all. I suppose that's why we're getting this before Detox. ​Seriously, it's been a decade since The Chronic 2001. I'll take an album once a decade if Detox manages to live up to those records, but if we get another Aftermath after all of this (including a Dr. Pepper commercial), I'm gonna be pissed. The Chron

  August 20, 2009