Bay Area

Bay Area rapper ‘The Jacka’ killed

Dominic “The Jacka” Newton was shot and killed.  According to CBS San Francisco, The Jacka, 37, was murdered on MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland, California.

Earl Stevens mangoscato

You read that right, Mangoscato. Earl Stevens, better known as West Coast hip-hop veteran E-40, has remixed the sweet white wine moscato, adding the flavor of

Adrian Marcel on Ginuwine, the Bay and learning from Raphael Saadiq

Adrian Marcel remembers exactly what album and what artist inspired him to become a singer. The R&B star from East Oakland knew that he was destined to be a performer after he heard Ginuwine’s 1998 album 100% Ginuwine. “That’s when I knew for sure that [music] was where I wanted to go,” he recalls. “I was always into music but that was around the age when you start liking girls, and I realized you get girls from singing. [laughs]”

Goapele returns to New York City: ‘My audience saved a place for me’

The Bay Area native has earned a bit of a reputation for being one of the more enigmatic artists in soul music. Since the release of her debut album Closer over a decade ago, the singer-songwriter has carved out her own niche and developed a devoted fanbase on the strength of the sincerity of her songs

Rapper C-Money Talks West Coast Dope

Artist to Know: C-Money Who he’s worked with: ESG, Sacramento Kings’ C-Bo and X-Raided, Bay Area notables Ad Kapone of Totally Insane, Chunk and the