By Delany Biko, Contrabandit.com Historically, people involved in rap music have used hip-hop's distinction as a counter-culture to...

By Juan Maldonado, NoHoLA After a four-year hiatus, one of the most powerful voices of rap is making his way back. He made his debut in...

By Jon Caramanica, Blender Get Paris's diet right: “The only motherfuckin’ pig I eat is police.” Always a degree or two more incendiary...

By Jeff Chang, The Nation.com Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One, and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new...

By Fritz The Cat, Vice Magazine While the whole of North America has wrapped itself in the stars and stripes over the last year in some...

By Max Sidman, Synthesis.net Paris is pulling no punches. He's not wasting time, and he's not fucking around at all. This Bay Area...

By John Vanderslice, Pitchfork Since 1988, when my brother and I dropped Public Enemy's Nation of Millions on our Technics turntable, rap...

Errol Nazareth, Eye Magazine Those who posit that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks aren't wasting time downloading a...

By Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters "When you're entrusted with something, man, and I speak as an artist, you're supposed to try to bring...

By Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club Best-known for the incendiary revenge fantasy "Bush Killa," rapper Paris graduated from UC-Davis...

By Paris, Washington Post Op-Ed A LOT of people are giving Bill Clinton advice these days. Here's mine. Although many Americans are...

By CMJ Staff, CMJ BIueprint for violence or merely expression of outrage? Is an angry, politically-based record a threat to society, or...

By Scott Frampton, CMJ New Music Report Chances are everyone who's been within earshot of the controversy surrounding Sleeping With The...

By David Browne and James Bernard, Entertainment Weekly Another month, another rap controversy. Or so it seemed when Bay Area-based...

By Chuck Philips, New York Newsday The record industry is quietly putting an end to violent, angry "gangsta" rap songs that portray the...

By Jon Pareles, The New York Times Ice Cube does some gloating on his new album, "The Predator." "Anything you wanted to know about the...

By Billy Kiernan, San Francisco Independent The Secret Service tapped his phone because of his song about the imaginary assassination of...

By Billboard Staff, Billboard Magazine Second album from Oakland, Calif.-based rapper-which was shunned by more than one label because of...

By Errol Nazareth, The Toronto Sun Go ahead, tell Paris his single "Bush Killa" is indefensible. Then stand back as the rapper shoots off...

By Ken Capobianco, The Boston Globe The mercurial rapper Paris' sophomore disc, has finally been released after three' companies refused...