Arts & Entertainment Missy Elliot Announces Summer Tour With Busta Rhymes and Ciara, Coming to Oakland in July Get your freak on when Missy Elliott comes to the Oakland Arena in July with Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland, as tickets go on sale this week for Misdemeanor’s first tour in 20 years.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rap Legend Shock G (née Humpty Hump) Has Died Stop what you’re doin, ‘cause we’re about to ruin your day with the news that Oakland rapper and Digital Underground frontman Shock G passed away Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Local Music Legend Stephanie 'DJ Stef' Ornelas Passed Away Sunday At Age 55 My brother @williemaze came to my gig today 🤗 pic.twitter.com/WdbB3iOJsO— Stephanie O (@djstef415) September 17, 2017 Bay Area DJ and music legend Stephanie Ornelas, a.k.a. DJ Stef, passed away
Arts & Entertainment The 20 Best Hip-Hop Tracks About The Bay Area By Adrian Spinelli Bay Area hip-hop exists in a class unto itself. Not as commercial as our NY and LA counterparts, our independent nature and uncompromising hip-hop ethos emanate from every hyphy beat,
SF News Instagram Blocks Drug Search Terms To Avoid Becoming Another Silk Road Did you know that Instagram is being widely used as an open-air drug market? It is. Vice just covered the story of the vast Instagram trade of lean a.k.a sizzurp a.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kreayshawn's 'Go Hard' Is Bad-Girls-Club Fun East Bay female hip-hop/pop chanteuse Kreayshawn penned a great ditty last year christened "Gucci Gucci." It was not only fun, but also bitchy and earwormy — everything one should look for in a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Double Duchess' 'Bucket Betch' Is San Francisco's Newest, Perhaps Greatest Anthem Move over Garland and Bennett. There is a new anthem for San Francisco, one that provides hope, beauty, and voguing on a BART plaftform. San Francisco queer electro-hop duo Double Duchess deserve the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/14: 'Negroes on Ice' COMEDY: Father and son hip-hop duo, Prince Paul and his son PForreal, bring to the stage their concept album, Negroes On Ice, which explores hip hop, father/son relationships, and "the kind of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bailey's 49ers Anthem 'Who's Got It Better' With the 49ers on the weighing heavily on the hearts of San Franciscans and other Bay Area ilk, it's high time for a rousing musical interlude, yes? Yes. And who better to bring
SF News '$2000 Rap Contest' Flyer Question Answered Like others, Andrew Dudley of Haighteration was baffled by the many, many, many $2000 Rap Contest flyers that seemingly popped up all over San Francisco this past weekend. To find our more, Dudley,
SF News Nate Dogg, Dead at 41 Well know for his hooks, as well as his collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Eminem, Long Beach-born rapper Nate Dogg (nee Nathaniel Dwayne Hale) is dead at 41. Dogg died on
Arts & Entertainment Odd Future Make Hip Hop Interesting For The First Time In Years; Prepare To Wreck Slim’s On 2/22 by Erick Pressman For the most part, Jimmy Fallon’s late night television show leaves a lot to be desired, but Wednesday night he may have put himself on the historical map forever
SF News Schwarzenegger Names Hip Hop Ambassador Hip-Hop Ambassador to After-School All-Stars Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most unpopular Governor in California history -- a recent Field Poll ranked Schwarzenegger’s approval rating at 23% and his disapproval at a record-breaking 71% -- he
misc Bay Area Slang Top 100 Check out Rafael Casal's "Bay Area Slang Top 100". Any slang terms Casal missed? [via Eye On Blogs]
Arts & Entertainment Mos Def Comes to Yoshi's In what might be a much-needed boost for the troubled Yoshi's franchise, hip hop artist and sometime actor Mos Def, the well-heeled man's rapper of choice, has lined up a three-night stint at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (1966): We were going to start throwing shade at the overall ineffectiveness of political satire -- which, by the way, The Battle of Algiers is
misc SFist Tonight Hoodies-N-Heels: Tonight's hip hop for the ivory white comes to you care of DJ VinSol. But he does more than just pump out hip hop staples. His electro, thrash, and slick soul sounds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- At Long Last Love (1975): At last -- the fecal matter-fest that is Peter Bogdanovich's career-killing, Cole Porter-infused musical. Starring Cybill Shepherd, Burt Reynolds, and Madeline Kahn, how did it all go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Shining (1980): "Honey, I'm home," "Here's Johnny!" etcetera, etcetera, Kubrick, and so forth. (No one wields a baseball bat like Shelley Duvall. So awkward. Also, what ever happened to her?) Screens
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Roller Boogie (1979): '70s campfest about brightly colored roller skaters trying to keep their roller skating rink open should be fun, we think. For some reason older folks seem to have a
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Feisty If you've been using that awesome crafty google map of San Francisco you have Leslie Yang to thank. Leslie is a member of the San Francisco Craft Mafia, and runs Feisty Elle where
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- King Corn (2007): Sounds like a tasty breakfast cereal, doesn't it? But in fact, it's a documentary about two college buddies who "plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized
