The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

RZA is the visionary behind the Wu Tang Clan, but in the past decade or so, he’s spread his talents to Tinseltown. Gradually RZA-recta went from scoring movies and TV shows like Afro Samurai to acting ...

Pop star Azealia Banks enters the ring in the rap battle romance “Love Beats Rhymes” veiled in black with a microphone, a dead rose and a coffin. Her character Coco Ford, a struggling New York singer, ...

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What you do on top of a beat is everything in hip-hop. Movies have their regular rhythms too, but there’s not much added to the static thump of cliché in “Love Beats Rhymes” to give this tale of a ...

There's been a long proclaimed idea that rap is an acronym for rhythm and poetry. Although it isn't technically true, the idea forever bridged the two as connected entities. But while hip-hop has gone ...

Ah, the holdover EP. While Blood Brothers hole up in the studio, recording the follow-up to 2004's Crimes with Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, they offer the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck EP to tide ...

Join us May 11 at Umpqua Bank Potrero Hill to celebrate the launch of Love Rhymes with Everything: Animal Ruminations through Poetry and Painting. This fur-and-feather-friendly collection features ...

Pop star Azealia Banks enters the ring in the rap battle romance “Love Beats Rhymes” veiled in black with a microphone, a dead rose and a coffin. Her character Coco Ford, a struggling New York singer, ...