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10 Hip-Hop Acts Besides Tupac Who Deserve the Big-Screen Treatment

By Clint Hale
Jun 13, 2017

All Eyez on Me is the latest in a long line of hip-hop biopics. But there are many more stories left to tell on the big screen.
Music Was Always Chappelle’s Show's Most Valuable Co-Star

By Clint Hale
Nov 11, 2016

"Chappelle's Show" was a musical show masquerading as a comedy show.
Amber Gallego

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Apr 10, 2014

Sign-language interpreter Amber Gallego has worked with Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar (her video interpreting Lamar at Lollapalooza has had more than 3.5 million hits). She’s as big a rock star to her viewers as the musicians she interprets. Gallego talks about her unusual career and demonstrates her skills during...
Snoop Dogg at House of Blues, 2/13/2014

By Marco Torres
Feb 14, 2014

"So what we get drunk? So what we smoke weed? We're just having fun, We don't care who sees. So what we go out? That's how it's supposed to be... Living young and wild and free!" Snoop Dogg House of Blues February 13, 2014 Whether the poster says Doggy Dogg,...
Snoop Lion and Five More Weird Religious Conversions That Need to Happen

By Nathan Smith
Feb 13, 2014

A funny thing happened to our old buddy Snoop Dogg last year: he got religion. And not just any old religion, either. In a move that we probably should have seen coming, the Doggfather formally embraced the Rastafari movement, a Jamaican spiritual ideology with fewer than a million adherents worldwide...
Second-Guessing Snoop Lion's Comments on Hip-Hop and Homosexuality

By Charne Graham
Apr 17, 2013

Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg) is a legend in the rap world. Everyone, even grandma, knows who he is. In the past 20 years, the rapper has branded himself well enough to be a household name. In a recent interview with UK publication The Guardian, Snoop shares his...
Friends in High Places: 5 Weird Actor/Musician Friendships

By Corey Deiterman
Feb 27, 2013

You or I may not be a fan of Justin Bieber, but you know who is? Mike Tyson, that's who. As Iron Mike explained a little while ago, he thinks Bieber is "pretty awesome." Apparently the ex-heavyweight champ got turned into a Belieber through his wife, who hooks Tyson up...
Top 10 Kitschy Pop-Related Gift Items to Give This Year

By Alexa Crenshaw
Nov 12, 2012

Thanksgiving is in ten days, and then we'll all be fully immersed in the holiday season. While shopping recently, I noticed that Taylor Swift now has her own greeting-card line featuring her photography and sweet words. If you were to receive one such card from a loved one, would you...
New Doc The Art Of Rap Spills Hip-Hop's Secrets

By Taylor Moon
Jun 7, 2012

Rap wasn't always like Lil Jon's yelling his famous "What!?" and "Okay!", or repeating your name over and over throughout the song like Houston's own Lil Flip. Nowadays most see rap as lyrics telling a woman how to position herself or look for a man, rhymes about money and talk...
Last Night: Snoop Dogg at Free Press Summer Fest

By Chris Gray
Jun 3, 2012

More FPSF 2012 Coverage: • Summer Fest line-up reviews on the Rocks Off blog. • Free Press Summer Fest 2012: The Sexy, Sweaty Crowds • Popsicles and Pizza: The Food of Summer Fest • FPSF: The Bands from Saturday • FPSF: The Bands from Sunday Snoop Dogg Free Press Summer...
Summer Fest Round Table: Guilty Pleasures & Geeking Out

By Chris Gray
May 31, 2012

Today Rocks Off asks our writers covering Free Press Summer Fest this weekend, "Which artist playing the festival is your guilty pleasure or makes you geek out the most?" We're glad to see we have so many Morris Day fans in our midst. Neph Basedow: My Summer Fest guilty pleasure...
Missed Connections: 5 Summer Fest Weekend Team-Ups We'd Like to See

By Cory Garcia
May 31, 2012

In terms of pure variety, the weekend of June 1-3 may be the most stacked weekend of music Houston will see this year, and that's not just because of Summer Fest. In addition to the wide variety of acts playing Eleanor Tinsley Park, there's the regular weekend mass of shows...
Coachella: Best of Weekend 2, Day 3

By Houston Press
Apr 23, 2012

Sunday, our friends at LA Weekly and OC Weekly trekked out to the desert for one more day -- ed. Timothy NorrisBy the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust...
Top 9 Comments On Summer Fest 2012: Where's The Women?

By Chris Gray
Mar 5, 2012

As most of Houston and the surrounding area knows by now, Free Press Summer Fest announced its 2012 lineup in the wee hours this morning. By now Rocks Off has had a few more hours to reflect on the festival, entering its fourth year at Eleanor Tinsley Park June 2...
Flaming Lips Return To Summer Fest With Avetts, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Descendents & Many More

By Chris Gray
Mar 5, 2012

Under cover of darkness, Free Press Summer Fest announced its 2012 lineup around 5 a.m. Monday. We'll get right to it: The Avett Brothers Snoop Dogg Willie Nelson Afrojack Primus The Flaming Lips (Performing Dark Side of the Moon)...
Snoop Arrested for Pot, Sign of End Times

By Jef Rouner
Jan 13, 2012

Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! Brace yourselves, but rapper Snoop Dogg smokes marijuana. Snoop...
"And A S.W.A.T Team in a Pear Tree": Hip Hop Christmas songs

By Allison Wagoner
Dec 8, 2011

Have you grown tired of hearing the same played out Christmas songs on 99.1 yet? Of course you have. Even if you avoid the radio, you hear the music at the grocery store, company holiday parties, even at bars you escape to in order to avoid holiday overcheer. It's almost...
St. Ides & Hip-Hop: Would Today's Rappers Endorse Malt Liquor?

By Charne Graham
Oct 24, 2011

The early '90s was a time when some of the best hip-hop music ever was being made, and the beverage of choice was malt liquor. Before rappers glorified Cristal, Ciroc and even their own branded alcohol, there were many hip-hop-inspired malt liquor ads. St. Ides in particular enlisted several rappers...
Snoopcounters: Snoop Dogg Knows A Lot Of People

By Craig Hlavaty
Oct 21, 2011

This week, rapper Snoop Dogg turned 40 years old. Tha Doggfather actually seems ageless to us, and we don't mean his 1996 album. Like, we fully expect him to become the hip-hop Willie Nelson: Rapping into his late 70s, relentlessly touring, smoking people a fraction of his age out in...
The Six Best (Or Worst) Rapper Name Changes

By Shea Serrano
Oct 18, 2011

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to...
Top 10 Hip-Hop Album Intro Tracks

By Charne Graham
Sep 22, 2011

Before iTunes and Amazon gave us the luxury of picking and choosing which tracks we want off an album, we had to buy the entire CD or cassette tape to listen to everything we paid for. The intro tracks are usually what help us decide if the album is something...
10 Rappers In The Guinness Book Of World Records*

By Charne Graham
Sep 15, 2011

*At one point or another The Guinness Book of World Records has always been a fascinating and somewhat random thing to be a part of. Some people strive to be in the book to get noticed, while others get in the book completely by accident for good and bad things...

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