Jermaine Dupri

Friday Rap-Up: Infinite Mindz, Jermaine Dupri, Daz, Kanye West, the Game, Bow Wow

Christmas Packages

The best holiday discs, as well as others that will make you pity the yule.

The Beatdown

All-Star Weekend put a jewel in Francois Baptiste's production crown.

Janet Jackson

20 Y.O. (Virgin)

Sound Bites

20 Y.O. (Virgin)

Club Scout

NBA All-Star Weekend

The Hustler

DJ Clinton Sparks has become a rising star by working harder than anyone else.

Fantasia and Ruben Studdard

Free Yourself (J Records) I Need an Angel (J Records)

Crunked Up

Beneath his deranged exterior, Lil Jon is a man with a plan.

Emvisible

D12 looks to get out from underneath Eminem's shadow.

Usher

Confessions (Arista Records)

Heavy Soul

White and bright, Sole emerges as independent hip-hop's newest anti-hero.

Millennium Madness

Don't hate them because they're buff, drive BMWs and attract girls like flies. The boys of B2K are OK.

Coast to Coast

Dez wants to put Denver on the hip-hop map all by himself.

Getting Big

Ex-Denver DJ Big Jon Platt on how to succeed in business by really, really trying.

Lil Wayne is not for the children

​Didn't somebody wise once say: "Lil Wayne is not for the children?" Oh, wait, come to think of it, that was ODB. Nevermind. And it was "Wu-Tang is for the children!" We digress. Nonetheless, the point remains. It doesn't take much to deduce that a guy that talks about the things Wayne talks a ... More >>