With all due respect to Atlanta and Chicago, Los Angeles might be the most important city in hip-hop. There is a real movement being built out west and it’s showing its strength this year. Two of hip-hop’s best albums in 2014 so far have come from Los Angeles acts: ScHoolboy Q and his excellent Oxymoron album, […]

YG stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to promote his banger debut album, My Krazy Life. With a huge red snapback prop on stage that read “Bompton” (an ode to his hometown) the Cali rapper performed his hits “Who Do You Love” and “My Hitta” – he was also joined onstage by CTE boss Young Jeezy. His boy DJ […]

With YG’s debut album, My Krazy Life, officially on store shelves, we got our hands on an exclusive album cut only available at Best Buy. Titled “459,” the smooth banger features Natasha Mosley, who sings about California’s burglary penal code – code 459. “It’s all right and it’s okay, 459, we roll this way, it’s […]

DJ Mustard is keeping the heat coming with his latest collabo “Vato,” featuring YG, Young Jeezy, and Que. The Roc Nation DJ/producer has released hit after hit for others (“Left Right” with YG, Jennifer Lopez’s “Girls,” and the “Paranoid” remix with Ty Dolla $ign, Trey Songz, and French Montana) and is now focusing on his own […]

Who do you love? Yesterday, Karen Civil’s CivilTV premiered the behind the scenes video of YG and Drake‘s club banger “Who Do You Love.” Today, the good folks at Buzzfeed premiered the Compton rapper’s Benny Boom-directed video. The video kicks off with YG and his homies playing a few video games when an unknown caller […]

Following the release of his Def Jam debut album, My Krazy Life, YG will be hitting the road. The Compton rapper announced his “My Krazy Life” tour, which kicks off March 29 in Syracuse, New York. For all the tour dates, check out MissInfo. Soulja Boy releases a new track titled “Macklemore,” which is obviously […]

YG and Drake are shooting the visuals to their DJ Mustard-produced banger “Who Do You Love.” Shot in California’s prestigious Beverly Hills, our good friend Karen Civil was there to catch all the behind the scenes action. The 2-minute clip features the Compton rapper going through various shots with the video’s director, and of course, […]

Don’t know how he did it, but YG managed to get all of his rapper friends and their busy schedules in one place to shoot his “My N*gga (Remix)” video. The Motion Family-directed vid features YG, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Meek Mill, and Rich Homie Quan kicking it on a black and white set. The […]

YG has released the tracklist for his upcoming album, My Krazy Life. Dropping March 18th, the debut album from the “My N*gga” rapper is set to be a hit – especially with all these high profile features. Executive produced by Young Jeezy, MKL includes collabs with Drake, TDE rappers Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, and Jay Rock, and […]

Reveal the album cover, so we know it’s real. A month before Compton-rapper YG releases his debut album, My Krazy Life, the “My Nigga” singer drops the project’s cover. And it isn’t pretty. The cover features a black and white mugshot of the rapper. Art imitates life here: back in the day, YG did like […]

West Coast rapper YG is at it again with DJ Mustard, dropping the video for their collabo, “Left Right.” After releasing the most talked about remix of the week, YG keeps the heat coming with the video for “Left Right.” The 6-minute visual takes place in Los Angeles and starts as a mini-movie of the rapper’s […]

YG rounds up all of his hittas for the “My N*gga (Remix).” The West Coast rapper enlists the talents of his East Coast comrades Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, as well as his Dirty South constituents Rich Homie Quan and Lil Wayne. Amongst a group of men, Nicki Minaj holds it down for her “bitches,” […]