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Kid Cudi exits Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label [Updated]

2013-04-02 15:49:00

Kid Cudi has parted ways with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint.� While promoting his upcoming effort, “Indicud,” on Yesi Ortiz’s KPWR (105.9 FM) show Tuesday afternoon, Cudi revealed he’d recently parted�ways with the...

Grammys 2013: Robert Glasper Experiment wins R&B album honors

2013-02-10 00:00:00

Jazz pianist Robert Glasper’s genre-blending "Black Radio” took home the prize for R&B album at the 55th Grammy Awards on Sunday. Crammed with cameos from Erykah Badu, Musiq Soulchild, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, Ledisi,...

Grammys 2013: Winner Robert Glasper on bridging the genre gap

2013-02-10 20:36:00

When pianist Robert Glasper scored two nominations for his critically lauded “Black Radio,” it was in R&B, not jazz -- a surprise given his pedigree. Backstage at the 55th Grammy Awards on Sunday, the Houston-born pianist was quizzed about...

Jay-Z said to be contributing music to 'The Great Gatsby'

2013-01-02 10:49:00

Director�Baz Luhrmann already tipped his hand in the trailer for his upcoming adaptation of "The Great Gatbsy." Among the songs heard was the Jay-Z-led track "No Church in the Wild," his 2011 collaboration with Kanye West. The use married an examination...

Ice-T gets back to hip-hop roots in ‘The Art of Rap’

2012-06-13 16:37:51

Rock the Bells 2012 taps Missy Elliott, A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, more

2012-05-16 16:36:03

PASSINGS: Jimmy Castor, Robert Dozier

2012-01-18 00:00:00

Jimmy Castor Wrote hit song 'Troglodyte (Cave Man)' Jimmy Castor, a funk and soul saxophonist, singer and songwriter best known for "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" and "It's Just Begun," died Monday of apparent heart failure at a Las Vegas hospital. He was 71,...

Sundance Film Festival announces its drama, documentary premieres

2011-12-05 16:37:42

Theater review: 'Topdog/Underdog' at South Coast Repertory

2012-01-15 21:33:02

Kid Cudi's WZRD and jazz artist Robert Glasper score high debuts

2012-03-07 16:36:34

Q-Tip signs to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label ‎

2012-04-11 16:37:45

Album review: Jack White's 'Blunderbuss'

2012-04-24 16:36:19

Rapper Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) will perform at The Shrine Friday.

2013-03-11 07:05:05

"Dave Chappelle's Block Party" is a 2005 documentary film about ? well, people who Chappelle meets on his travels and as he's preparing to host a block party in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.

2013-03-04 12:07:43

or Yasiin Bey, the rapper, born Dante Terrell Smith, has been a staple of the hip-hop scene for nearly two decades. See why, and welcome him back to Baltimore (where, as an actor, he filmed the HBO movie "Something the Lord Made" back in 2003), when he heats things up at Rams Head Live March 1.

2013-02-15 07:53:00