An open and honest dialogue surrounding hip hop and the gay community aired on VH1 after an episode of its regular series Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood. The special television broadcast named LHH: Out in Hip Hop was hosted by T.J. Holmes, an ABC News correspondent, and included several openly gay panelists within the hip hop […]
![We R the Lost’s Album Proves They Are Anything but ‘Still Lost’ [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/briggz1.jpg?fit=612%2C421&ssl=1 "We R the Lost")
When Milwaukee rapper and producer Jon Briggz first gave his music and art collective the name “We R the Lost,” it was a tongue-in-cheek response to critics. The group’s detractors labeled them as nothing but a lazy group of destructive partiers with no direction. With numerous single releases and mixtapes, Briggz’s aim was to prove […]
Straight Outta Compton replicates and projects memories to viewers on how resilient rappers such as Andrey “Dr. Dre” Young, O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson, and Eric “Eazy-E” Young rose above the discrimination of the era to find new styles of music, hip-hop and rap. They used lyrics to express the brutality that they and the […]