The planet is controlled by mega-corporations. They leach the Earth of its natural resources, turning swaths of once-fertile land into uninhabitable desert. They control the news and manipulate public ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of Hip Hop’s true pioneers and West Coast legends — Too $hort, born Todd Anthony Shaw on this date in 1966. Too $hort’s ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Andy Kawanami and Chuy Gomez (left to right) hosted ‘Hip Hop Friday’ on the California Music Channel in the ’90s. The channel became a crucial outlet for Bay Area rappers on their way to national ...

(KRON) — Bay Area rap icon Too Short has been announced as the halftime entertainment for the Oakland Roots Soccer Club’s ...

Moments earlier, Too $hort transformed the same stage into a Bay Area time capsule, running through anthems like “Gettin' It” and “Blow the Whistle” that have ...

LaRussell, the Vallejo rapper whose backyard concerts attract fans from thousands of miles away, will play a major Super Bowl show. On Wednesday morning, the NFL announced that the rapper would open ...

For the first time since the great hyphy explosion of the mid-2000s, Bay Area rap can claim a new figurehead — a centripetal artist with an energizing signature sound. That artist is Trackademicks, a ...

In the Bay Area rap scene you can still find glimpses of the genre alive in its purest form. The region’s hip-hop culture is known for its independence and insular spirit born of a combination of pimp ...