This week’s new music Friday also features Gorillaz, Freddie Gibbs, Sean Paul, Coi Leray and Brother Ali. Closely hearing a backspin scratch effect on “Drop," Jonze was incited with a vision of how ...

*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Bringing together reggae, rap, hip-hop, and a little bit of ska is Cali Vibes Music Festival, held every Valentine’s Day weekend on the Downtown ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: March 18, 1993: The Pharcyde dropped their second and most commercially successful single, "Passin' Me By," on this day in 1993. As the second ...

It’s time to cook up another review in the No Skips lab this week to credit an album as boasting no skippable tracks. In my opinion, the second and final album — with the original lineup — by rap ...

Taking to Instagram, Slimkid3 recalled 2Pac once telling him their debut album, “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde,” should have been platinum a long time ago. Current and past members of The ...

Even if it didn't arrive five years after its predecessor, The Pharcyde's Plain Rap would still linger in the long shadows cast by the group's groundbreaking first two albums, 1992's gleefully ...

[Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, “Bizarre Ride,” appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of ...

Twenty five years ago, The Pharcyde released Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, which is now considered one of the greatest alternative rap albums ever. To celebrate, the group's unveiling a new 25th ...

Valley hip-hop fans will be treated to a bizarre ride tonight from the Pharcyde, the always changing and evolving Los Angeles rap crew. Romye “Booty Brown” Robinson, Imani Wilcox, Tre “Slimkid” ...

In early 1992, the international rap profile of Los Angeles was N.W.A’s appetite for destruction, Ice-T’s new-jack hustles, and Cypress Hill’s hands on the pump. Lucky locals knew of the poetic ...

The Pharcyde can easily stake a claim to two of the greatest golden age era hip-hop albums in Bizarre Ride II and the J-Dilla produced Labcanbincalifornia. But the West Coast underground rap foursome ...

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the widely beloved Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, Get on Down/Delicious Vinyl will release a deluxe-edition singles box set from L.A. alt-rap pioneers the ...