The Game

Give Game credit. Over the last 12 months, he's released a great album. The problem is that you have to put it together yourself. Released in union with longtime collaborator DJ Skee, "Purp & Patron" is the erstwhile Jayceon Taylor's......

Featured Artist Of March-Travis Barker Album-“Give The Drummer Some” 1st Single-Can A Drummer Get Some (feat.Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Swizz Beatz, The Game) TRACK LISTING Travis Barker Give The Drummer Some Track List 1. Can A Drummer Get...

Since Nas called the coroner on 2006’s “Hip Hop is Dead,” critics and consumers alike have launched alternately spirited and sputtering defenses of his thesis. Of course, the 30-year-old genre has myriad issues to grapple with: a lack of adequate......

No genre evolves faster than hip-hop. One summer auto-tune is ubiquitous -- by Halloween it’s a punch line faster than you can say Ron Browz. Understandably, there’s something refreshingly anachronistic about The Game. No matter what trend or topic...

On the final night of SXSW, a savage cold front swept into Austin causing the mercury to plummet to near freezing levels. Unprepared for the sudden shift, most attendees flocked to indoor venues, save for a few thousand stalwarts who......

--posted by Maureen Ryan Chicago hip-hop artist and actor Common has been cast in one of the lead roles in a pilot for the hot cable network AMC. Common will star as a half-black, half-white freed slave in "Hell on Wheels," a show about the building of...

For all its booze-soaked bonhomie and head-nodding musical surprises, a "listening party" for "LAX," the new album from the multi-platinum-selling Compton gangsta rapper the Game, on Monday night proved to be the rarest kind of orchestrated media event....

In some ways, the record release party for "All I Feel," the fourth full-length release from R&B performer Ray J, felt more like a night out at the club with the Southern California native than an invitation-only music industry event. Yes, there was...

Last in a series of stories exploring the creative process of the executives and producers who find and nurture talent. "We go until it happens," rap producer Dr. Dre says about all the time he spends in the recording studio searching for hits, once as...

It's not easy being Det. Tom Ludlow ( Keanu Reeves). Still grieving over his recently deceased wife, he wanders the streets of Los Angeles in an alcoholic haze, shooting first, planting evidence next and answering questions later. This should be enough to...

SACRAMENTO -- Amid concern over the frenzy of entertainment blogs and tabloids competing for inside information on Paris Hilton's days in jail and Mel Gibson's tirade during a drunk-driving arrest, state lawmakers have taken steps to clamp down on some...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 CBS' broadcast of the Grammy Awards was off some from last year, but it still gave the network a decisive ratings win Sunday night. The Eye averaged a 10.3 rating/16 share in primetime, beating second-...