It started, as many great things do, with a hint of desperation. Abiodun Henderson had agreed to make sauce for a dinner benefiting her Atlanta-based social enterprise, The Come Up Project, and ...

YOU can’t help but get a little suspicious of a hip-hop artist who makes an album on which nearly every track features another artist who’s a bigger, badder star. Miami rapper Rick Ross ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In his new book, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (out this month through Hachette Books), former L.A. Weekly music ...

The late Tupac Shakur will soon become the sixth hip-hop artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an honor Ben Westhoff says is well-deserved. Westhoff talks with Here & Now's Meghna ...

Police are upset that young boys are holding handguns and making threats in the locally produced Gangstas & Thugs video series they say glorifies guns and gangs. “That’s my concern,” police ...

Saint Row: the Third’s Gangstas in Space puts us in the starring role of lead actor/actress in a B-movie science fiction action romance (and yes, that’s a lot of genres for one film).