Sometimes, when I'm really anxious before a date — which is every time — I rap along to the Notorious B.I.G. in my car. It helps me forget how nervous I am around women. And although I had managed to start dating a girl I really liked, we were having difficulties. So I was listening to a lot of Biggie.

I was telling all this to my therapist in North Hollywood. I told her that I was trying to get better at dating, that I was trying to become more confident with women.

My therapist listened patiently. Then she ...

Hip-hop fans may recognize the title of O’s choreo-poem, “Black & Ugly As Ever” as the infamous line from Notorious B.I.G.'s 1995 hit “One More Chance/ Stay With Me.” O’s intimate connection to this line goes back a few years, when an audience member, after one of Porsha’s performances, ...

Ozark is an American crime drama web television series created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, and produced by Media Rights Capital. Jason Bateman stars in the series; he also directed the first two and last two episodes of season 1, and ...

In hip-hop, fans and critics often marvel at and put a premium on the supreme soloists or groups who can craft classic songs and bodies of work while remaining the central figure. However, the most electric moments in the culture occur when multiple emcees collaborate on a track, with the sole purpose of asserting themselves as the most lyrically gifted by delivering an epic rhyme spill that outclasses the others. Throughout the years, the songs—generally referred to as "posse cuts"—have become some of the most memorable in the genre's history, ...

Kanye West is one of the most influential artists of all time. He's changed the game so many times that it's difficult to keep track of. As he continually shifts styles, it becomes increasingly hard to view him as the same person that dropped The College Dropout years ago. When people say they miss the old Kanye, they're talking about the fearless kid in the mid-2000's who dropped some of the best albums of the decade. Considering how big he's gotten, it's crazy to think that he was once just an aspiring rapper but even then, he was opening for Tupac and Biggie during their first joint concert in Chicago. ...

RAP music fans say Suge Knight should “face justice” for the Biggie Smalls murder after he was sentenced over a fatal hit-and-run. The shamed former Death Row Records boss is accused of mowing down two men with a pick-up truck in Los Angeles on January 29, 2015. One victim Terry Carter died from his injuries while Cle “Bone” Sloan suffered serious injuries to his feet and his head. Horrific CCTV video showed Knight’s vehicle reversing over one of the men and then slamming into another. ...