Subject: Tupac Shakur

• Leviathan Brothers, DiPiazzas, September 13, 2007

  Photo: Suzie Ahn Leviathan Brothers' keyboardist (and occasional OC Weekly contributor) Sean O'Connell announced from the DiPiazzas stage: “This week marks the sixth year of the five-year anniversary of Tupac's death. To commemorate the occasion, we're going to play an original.” Now that's wit. He and his band mate, drummer Miles Senzaki, then commenced to forge a moving soul-jazz composition that cascaded with great beauty. Rare is the group for whom between-song banter alone is worth

  September 14, 2007

• The LA Times, That Tupac/Diddy Story, and the Value of The Google

  Okay, I'm not trying to pile on Chuck Philips or the Los Angeles Times over the now-retracted story about Sean "Diddy" Combs' alleged involvement in a 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur. Ever since The Smoking Gun ran a withering dissection of the documents on which the whole story depended and the Times was forced to issue a sweeping apology for the piece, that pile has gotten pretty damn big, with both readers and other journalists getting in on the action. I just want to make sure our readers get a

  March 28, 2008

• Will Rappers Cost Obama the Election?

  Please, Plies, come out in support of Sarah Palin Young Jeezy's brief flirtation with John McCain on the set of Saturday Night Live aside, it's clear rappers favor Barack Obama by a wide margin in this election. (Check out this survey, for starters.) Though emcee after emcee has supported Obama with endorsement tracks, the big-ups at this point are likely doing more harm than good. Witness the negative media reaction to Ludacris's Hillary/McCain/Bush-bashing "Politics as Usual" cut, which cause

  September 29, 2008

• West Coast Wrap

  April 22, 1999

• A Short History of Angry HiStory

  November 25, 1999

• Designer Stories: Silver Star Casting Company

  April 26, 2001

• The Untouchables

  October 3, 2002

• Johnnie Cochran is Back to Right Another Alleged Injustice...Check That, It's His Law Firm

  Years after the glove didn't fit and we had to acquit, countless Larry King Live appearances and actor Phil Morris' career zenith with the Seinfeld Jackie Chiles parody, Johnnie Cochran Jr. is coming back to Orange County to right an alleged racial injustice. OK, so Mr. Cochran departed for that Great Ambulance Chase in the Sky back in 2005, but The Cochran Firm he started 40 years ago will represent the family of Julian Alexander, the 20-year-old newlywed and father-to-be who was mistakenl

  November 25, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast f

  December 18, 2008

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young" -

  December 19, 2008

• Last Night: Snoop Dogg, Warren G, The Twins at the Glass House

  BY RYAN RITCHIELast Night: Snoop Dogg at the Glass House in Pomona, Dec. 26, 2008.Wanna know if you're old? Go see Snoop Dogg and ask yourself which category of fans you fall in to. You're either in a) the group of shaggy-haired teenagers who wouldn't mind if he played "Sensual Seduction" twice, or b) the group of 30-somethings who've been listening to tha Doggfather since his "Deep Cover" debut and want nothing more than to hear that song, a few verses from Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and all of "D

  December 27, 2008

• Quik's Groove: DJ Quik Live with Orchestra

  March 12, 2009

• Notorious B.I.G., Made B.L.A.N.D.

  January 15, 2009

• Why Southern Hip-Hop Is the Same as FOX News

  May 1, 2008

• Numbers by Paint

  Banyan Splatter the Aural Canvas with a Profusion of Surprising Hues

  October 4, 2007

• A Week in the Nightlife

  Nerdy garage rock, wiseguy jazz, Binges that purge, Goodfoot turns 9 and Holy Fuck!
  

  September 27, 2007

• Confusion Is Good

  Ima Robot mess with gender, subvert expectations

  May 31, 2007

• Blasto de Mayo

  May 3, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 18, 2007

• New Reviews

  Code Name: The Cleaner; Freedom Writers; Happily N'Ever After; Thr3e

  January 4, 2007

• Prostate Orgasm

  GET OUT! Nightlife and more: Dec. 7 - Dec. 14

  December 7, 2006

• Get Out!

  June 29 - July 6: Handjobdrugscum
  

  June 29, 2006

• I Love AC/DC

  December 1, 2005

• Virgin Megastore

  January 13, 2005

• Live Previews

  December 9, 2004

• Beats Rhymes Life

  November 11, 2004

• Chaos Brings Order

  November 27, 2003

• Doggy Fizzle

  October 23, 2003

• OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

  January 2, 2003

• Infomercial Junkies

  November 21, 2002

• Heavenly Pairings

  October 10, 2002

• Way 2 Fonky

  July 18, 2002

• What Would Elvis Do?

  July 11, 2002

• How Neatly Spreads His Claws

  January 31, 2002

• One Very Funky Week

  February 15, 2001

• Pigs! Pigs! Pigs! They're Porkin It up!

  August 10, 2000

• Outlaw Poetry?

  January 13, 2000

• Peace Meal

  December 23, 1999

• Not Angry No More

  November 25, 1999

• Invasion of the Angry White Rappers!

  July 15, 1999

• Snoop Doggy Dad

  January 21, 1999

• What's it like to be a big-time music writer at a major metropolitan newspaper?

  December 10, 1998

• BREAKING: Michael Jackson Not Really Dead!

  Yep, it was only a matter of time: Now you can add Michael Jackson to the ranks among Elvis (still eating), Tupac (still rapping), JFK (?) and Hitler (vacationing in South America). I mean, really, check out this video from LiveLeak.com of Jackson supposedly walking out of a Los Angeles coroner's van. See that white shirt? PROOF. Michael Jackson wore white shirts. Here's what LiveLeak.com has to say about this matter: "This video shows that Michael was still alive after his dead body was tr

  August 26, 2009