Over the weekend, Grammy-nominated artist and humanitarian YG and his 4Hunnid Ways Foundation partnered with Believe in Giving (B.I.G) for a back-to-school drive in Inglewood.
Not content with merely taking a victory lap after winning his battle against fellow rap superstar Drake, Kendrick Lamar turned his Juneteenth “Pop Out” concert at the Forum into a cathartic livestreamed celebration of Los Angeles unity.
In her first three games with the Women of Troy basketball team, freshman guard Juju Watkins has made history.
On November 17, rapper, YG teamed up with Dion Rambo of Rambo House Foundation, the City of Hawthorne, Oracle and UCLA Health to launch his new initiative, the TeleHealth Van. The first fleet of vans were designed to offer free services to low income and unhoused individuals and families.
The Rams Celebrity Game was epic, full of stars including YG, D Smoke, Matt Barnes, Massy Arias, OT Genasis, Reason TDE, and more. It’s obvious some of these entertainers played sports before stardom.
Thousands took to the streets of Los Angeles this past weekend, and into the early part of this week, marking the 14th consecutive day of protests sparked by the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
There were several sizable demonstrations in Los Angeles and Mayor Eric Garcetti took a knee at one while in a crowd outside police headquarters. However, later in the day, hundreds gathered outside Garcetti’s house and protested.
The Grammy’s, while side-swiped by the news, would carry on in his honor at the Staples Center, the epicenter he made his home for more than 20-years.
Many fans got the chance to take pictures and talk music with their favorite artists, as well as participate in the varied festivities
Sheriff’s homicide bureau detectives served a search warrant today at a home leased by rapper YG in connection with a shootout that took place earlier this month in Compton and made one arrest.
The final night of the BET Experience concerts were headlined by hip-hop’s hottest artists inside Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday night (June 24) with performances by Rae Sremmurd, Meek Mill, ASAP Ferg, Nipsey Hussle, Playboi Carti, Kamaiyah and Lil Pump.
Tamika Scott and Tameka “Tiny” Harris, will perform a full set from their chart-topping portfolio of classic R&B staples in one of the festival’s four intimate Superlounges.
Compton Mayor Aja Brown along with rapper YG’s 4Hundred Waze Foundation hosted the first Compton Fun Fridays for local youth on Fri. Mar. 17 at the Dollarhide Community Center.
Mayor Aja Brown, the City of Compton and over 10,000 parade spectators welcomed home 2016 multiple Grammy nominee rapper Kendrick Lamar as the grand marshal of the 63rd Annual Compton Christmas Parade held Saturday, December 12. Thousands lined Compton Boulevard between Bullis Road and Alameda Street to catch a glimpse of the Compton native who rode in a 1964 Chevrolet Impala with his fiancé Whitney Alford by his side stopping at one point to tell the the crowd “Compton is number one!”