Lollapalooza today is a sleek, reliably well-oiled pop music festival. But it was born of chaos. On the festival’s first date — July 18, 1991, at Chandler, Arizona’s Compton Terrace — nearly everything that could go wrong did. The sweltering weather fried Nine Inch Nails‘ gear, Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell …
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Body Count stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent song, “Comfortably Numb,” an updated version of Pink Floyd‘s 1979 single. The track, off the group’s new LP Merciless, sees frontman Ice-T rapping his own lyrics over the familiar music. Ice-T sat down with host Jimmy Fallon to discuss …
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Quincy Jones’ countless friends, fans, and peers have started sharing tributes to the legendary musician and producer following his death on Sunday, Nov. 3, at the age of 91. On Instagram, the estate of Michael Jackson called Jones “a legendary talent whose contributions to music spanned generations and genres,” and …
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Over the past few years, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have beefed about everything from control of the Pink Floyd Facebook page to the war in Ukraine. They communicate primarily through lawyers and extremely caustic Tweets. But they finally found something they could agree on when Ice-T approached them this …
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Public Enemy and Ice-T will link up to headline a special, free concert in Washington D.C. celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. The two-day National Celebration of Hip Hop show will take place Oct. 6 and 7 at West Potomac Park on the National Mall. The concert will feature an array of …
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The quest to build the perfect collection for the Universal Hip Hop Museum leads to a trove of Notorious B.I.G.’s artifacts in this new clip from the upcoming series, Hip Hop Treasures. The new show — premiering Aug. 12 on A&E — follows LL Cool J, Ice-T, and an assortment …
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Hip-hop has lived and thrived for 50 years, and some of the genre’s pioneers are reflecting on the genre’s cultural influence. Speaking at Essence Fest over the weekend, KRS-One and Ice-T looked back at the genre’s longevity and its future. “Fifty years ago, some of us knew this was going …
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