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His peers and associates remember the South Central rapper who was fatally stabbed at a local music festival: 'There will never be another Drakeo.' View the full article

Rod Stewart, 76, and his son Sean, 41, tangled with a security guard at a New Year's Eve event in 2019. The singer entered a plea deal. View the full article

Psychedelic soul, leftfield pop en español and breakthrough SoCal hip-hop lead our picks for the only playlist you need for 2021. View the full article

Prominent stars in the industry — from Drake to Snoop Dogg — mourned the loss of Drakeo the Ruler. View the full article

Drakeo the Ruler, 28, whose surrealist slang made him one of the most original stylists in L.A. hip-hop, died after being stabbed at a concert. View the full article

Hip-hop artist Drakeo the Ruler was attacked by a group of people at a concert in L.A. and later died from his injuries, a source has told The Times. View the full article

Lynnée Denise, a friend and collaborator of hooks, the pioneering feminist writer who died last week, describes her essential legacy. View the full article

Ahead of the 'Insecure' finale, three women featured on the Season 5 soundtrack performed for NPR's Tiny Desk. And yes, there was a link to Black L.A. View the full article

She started the year by winning the album of the year Grammy. But it was two rapturously received rerecordings of her older albums that really grew her legend. View the full article

Between the Delta variant and the Astroworld tragedy, 2021 was a gut check for live music. Outdoor festivals may be a safe space, but Omicron looms over 2022. View the full article

Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion will make her debut as a television executive producer with a to-be-named series for Netflix. View the full article

Bruce Springsteen's massive deal to sell his catalog to Sony Music Entertainment is the largest yet during a recent gold rush for music rights. View the full article

Vicente Fernández music was a soundtrack of love, heartache and resistance to Mexicans and Mexican Americans for decades. We talk why. View the full article

Ring out the old year and ring in the new with our curated list of best bets for New Year's Eve fun. View the full article

Singer Billie Eilish revealed that she started watching porn to 'learn how to have sex' and feel like 'one of the guys,' but it took a toll on her mentally. View the full article

Alana Haim got lucky: Even trapping co-stars Bradley Cooper and Cooper Hoffman in a smoke-filled moving van wasn't enough to get her fired from 'Licorice Pizza.' View the full article

Ringo Starr, Fred Armisen, Mark Hamill and Vanessa Bayer are among the dozens of celebrities in a new video for George Harrison's 1970 hit 'My Sweet Lord.' View the full article

In 2021, Latin music made room for energizing new sounds and faces, while bidding farewell to one of its true icons. View the full article

Thanks to deep-pocketed streamers with an insatiable need for content and subscribers, music fans enjoyed an unparalleled bounty of documentaries in 2021. View the full article

R&B testimonials, teen confessionals, hip-hop in pop-star drag and more, in a wide-open year for breakthroughs. View the full article

Britney Spears laid into Diane Sawyer over her 2003 interview, alleging she was forced to talk while "in shock" over her split from Justin Timberlake. View the full article

Lance Bass and Sean Baker talk about 'NSYNC's 'Bye Bye Bye.' Why it's perfect for 'Red Rocket' and why the band OK'd its use for a film about a porn star. View the full article

'The lights have never shined brighter in the sky,' Alejandro Fernández wrote after his father, legendary fellow singer Vicente Fernández, died Sunday. View the full article

The singer, who had been in poor health, died Sunday, according to an announcement on his Instagram page. A cause of death was not specified. View the full article

What made Vicente Fernández so consistently spectacular across four decades? Start with these songs. View the full article