As Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more continue their high-profile beef, we run down the most inspired – and vicious – attacks in rap’s history
January 2024
Les McCann obituary
American jazz musician whose popular blues and gospel-inspired sounds were later sampled by a host of rap artists
March 2023
Snoop Dogg review – highs and lows from the D-O-double-G
The rapper drawls his way through his greatest hits and some cheesy near-misses in this long-delayed show. Shame about the unreconstructed objectification
January 2023
Dr Dre successfully blocks Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music
Dr Dre deplores ‘hateful’ Marjorie Taylor Greene using his song in removed video
September 2022
‘You’re gonna get a bit of Dr Dre’: Thérèse Coffey's alarm goes off during LBC interview – video
You're gonna get a bit of Dr Dre, said the health secretary, Thérèse Coffey, during an LBC interview
August 2022
I was a teenage Napster obsessive – and illegal downloading changed my music taste for good
Emma Garland
The P2P giant was shut down 20 years ago this week. But the omnivorous mindset it encouraged in a generation resonates in the very best of today’s genre-smashing pop
February 2022
Super Bowl: the ads, the music and everything but the football – as it happened
While the game raged on, there were several major ads and movie trailers and a much-anticipated half-time show from some hip-hop and R&B legends
Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J Blige’s half-time show – an all-timer
The supergroup of hip-hop and R&B legends delivered the most entertaining Super Bowl half-time show in years
Will Dr Dre’s halftime Super Bowl show move the NFL beyond its race crisis?
The lineup’s too big to fail, and like the league’s efforts to address its race and gender problems, this too appears to be a no-win proposition
September 2021
Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J Blige and Snoop Dogg to perform at Super Bowl
The five multi-award-winning artists will perform on the same stage together for the first time at next year’s half-time show
June 2021
Dean Blunt: Black Metal 2 review – instantly familiar yet utterly unknowable
The former Hype Williams frontman has polished his rap-alt-rock aesthetic to the point of perfection
January 2021
Dr Dre 'doing great' after hospitalisation for reported brain aneurysm
The billionaire rapper thanks friends and fans for their well wishes and says he will be ‘back home soon’
February 2020
Ranked
Eminem: his 30 greatest tracks, ranked!
From horrorcore fantasies to soul-searching nightmares, here are the greatest moments from the Detroit rapper’s tumultuous career
January 2020
Eminem: Music to Be Murdered By review – potent force in search of targets
Another surprise album drop finds the rapper on stylish form, even as he scatters scorn wide – at young rappers, #MeToo sensibilities – and identifies with deadly outsiders
November 2019
Ranked
Dr Dre's 20 best productions – ranked!
As the Grammys announces it will honour the producer at its 2020 ceremony, here’s a look at his journey from gangsta rap pioneer to Beats billionaire
September 2019
Bowie's gnome and Dr Dre's hospital: musicians' embarrassing early songs
Pop duo Tegan and Sara have re-recorded their high school songs – and they’re not the only songwriters to have started young
March 2019
Dr Dre says daughter got into USC 'all on her own' – then fans point out $70m donation
Dre deletes Instragam picture after fans remind him of donation to USC in 2013 to create academy for arts, technology and business
October 2018
Steve Rose on film
Is this the real life? Why ‘official’ biopics skip the scandal and keep it safe
From Bohemian Rhapsody to Rocketman, can a film about an artist ever tell the truth when family and friends are involved?
August 2018
Cities in the spotlight
Straight Outta Compton is a classic album – but did it help or harm 'Hub City'?
NWA’s seminal album was released 30 years ago this month. We take a closer look at the complex Los Angeles County locale that inspired it
