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Hurricane G, who was the first female member of EPMD’s Hit Squad, had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

The 2022 edition of the Tribeca Festival (fka Tribeca Film Festival) will also screen films about Sinead O’Connor, The DOC, Detroit techno, Found Footage Festival and more, plus live music performances & more.

Moving from its former home in Long Beach, CA for 2021, Once Upon a Time in LA has a killer hip-hop lineup, plus lots of classic funk and soul.

Ludacris, Questlove, Talib Kweli, Noname, Q-Tip, Fat Joe, Method Man, Havoc of Mobb Deep, Burna Boy, Ice-T, slowthai, Lil Durk, Masta Ace, Open Mike Eagle, Bootsy Collins, Juicy J, Kaytranada, Nothing, Speedy Ortiz, Fucked Up, and more pay tribute to the late legend.

Kendrick Lamar collaborator Terrace Martin announced a NYC show with his supergroup The Pollyseeds (including Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Problem, and more). In recent related news, longtime feuders DJ Quik & MC Eiht finally collaborated and both have great new albums out…

As you probably know, N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton hits theaters next week (8/14) and the soundtrack to the movie is Compton: A Soundtrack by…

Cleveland hip hop vets Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have been playing their 1995 sophomore album, E. 1999 Eternal, in full on tour this year, and that tour’s recently been expanded into the summer…

Shout Out Louds at Webster Hall in 2010 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Los Vega @ Barbes * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * The Thermals @ Ace Hotel * Ester Rada @ Slipper Room * Greys, Shahman @ Cake Shop * Tony Scherr Trio @ Living Room * Shellshag, Pity Party @ Acheron * Deep Space w/ Francois K @ Cielo * The Campilongo Trio @ Living Room * Frank London’s Shekhina Big Band @ The Stone * Kria Brekkan, Aaron Roche @ Church of the Advent Hope * Wyatt Cenac, Yannis Pappas, Erik Bergstrom @ Littlefield * The Electric Set, Sexy Neighbors, Trepanning @ Silent Barn * Bernhoft, Baby Alpaca (Duo Set), Cameron Hull @ Glasslands * Shout Out Louds, Little Children @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Lily & The Parlour Tricks, Alice & the Glass Lake @ Mercury Lounge * Child Abuse, Pyrrhon, Say At Last, Valerie Keuhne @ Death By Audio * Kestrels, Adult Dude, Graveyard Lovers, Sweethearts @ Public Assembly * Hannibal Buress, Taylor Ketchum, Kate Hendricks, Michael Che, Mike Denny, Nimesh Patel @ Matchless Kria Brekkan (of Iceland’s Mum) plays tonight at Church of the Advent Hope (111 E…