Lil' Boosie & Webbie

'Lil's 90th" by Darci Picoult opens Wednesday in its world premiere at Stage II, Long Wharf Theatre , 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven. Read More

The rise and fall of super-producer Scott Storch has been well documented. Read More

Rapper Lil' Wayne has returned to his home town of New Orleans to peform a "farewell tour" ahead of his likely imprisonment in New York. The 27-year-old New Orleans native and rap superstar, legally named Dwayne Carter, clad in a crimson-red fitted hat and matching winter coat, arrived onstage at the New Orleans Arena to thunderous applause. Read More

"Harder in the sense that maybe the pop world doesn't know how to interpret me, but easier in the sense that I know my music comes from me and it's a clear and perfect projection of everything I am. It's not only because I have control, but it's because that's the only music that can comfort me. I don't know how to be anyone else. I can only really speak to myself and my own experiences, so if that means I'm talking about playing some dude bogus or f---ing it up at a party, that's literally the life that I live." Read More

The second installment of Oh No's series of world music beat tapes, Ethiopium really should've been called Further Exodus Into Unknown Rhythms. Read More

An appeals court ruling this week limiting the police use of Tasers may have special importance in San Jose, where every police officer is armed with the stun gun and where their use in a series of situations has raised controversy. Read More