
Why do tabloid headlines use so many puns?
Why do tabloid headlines use so many puns? We talked to staff members at the Post and the Daily News, as well as a linguist, about why this is done and whether or not it will continue.
Hip-hop historian Dan Charnas hopes "gangsta rap doesn't come back"

We spoke to the author of 'The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-hop' about moguls, the culture of the 90s and how now it's "the activists who are doing the work, not the rappers."
Watch Kendrick Lamar interview N.W.A.

In advance of the premiere of 'Straight Outta Compton', Lamar interviewed the group for Billboard.
Dr. Dre will open performing arts center in Compton from album proceeds

The hip-hop legend revealed he will donate the royalties from the album to build a performing arts center in the City of Compton.
Kendrick Lamar's new Reebok concept hopes to unite bloods and crips

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar is teaming up with Reebok to create a new line of Ventilator sneakers.
Kendrick Lamar's addresses police brutality in new video 'Alright'

Previously the Compton-based rapper visited a high school in New Jersey to discuss Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, his album To Pimp A Butterfly, and internal and institutionalized racism.