DILATED Peoples started its current tour from "Scratch." That's the title of a new documentary about historic hip-hop DJs and the contemporary turntablist movement, executive-produced by Allen and ...

While the rest of the nation was swaying to the blunted g-funk of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, the trio that comprises L.A.’s Dilated Peoples was keeping their ears to the street and their fingers nimbly ...

Founded in L.A. circa 1992, Dilated Peoples is a hip-hop group featuring Rakaa Iriscience, Evidence, and DJ Babu, from the Beat Junkies DJ collective. Blending underground sounds with mainstream ...

While loads of underground rap acts pay obsessive homage to their forefathers' traditions, most lack any commercial prowess. Unfortunately, simply slipping on vintage suede Pumas doesn't guarantee a ...

The underground”s reigning poster children, California-based hip-hop trio Dilated Peoples are almost standard on mixtapes and hip-hop compilations. Evidence, Rakaa Iriscience, and DJ Babu pride ...

The latest episode of Sound Check with Jeremy Hecht features an underground West Coast hip-hop veteran: Evidence. Born and raised in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood, Evidence was one-third of pivotal ...

In the broader genre and community that encompasses hip-hop, there are several schools that graduate artists with certain sounds. In the dirty south, artists come out rappin’ with southern twangs and ...

The Release Party is a DVD documentary looking back at the trials and tribulations of Dilated Peoples, an underground rap sensation that languished on a major label for several years despite showing ...

For those who have bought the Purple Devil, stay alerted. Since there is one hidden silver ticket hidden in one of the 150 pairs. Check on the right shoe, if the Solebox branding is done on the inner ...

In the PR for 20/20 (ABB/Capitol), MC and producer Evidence says the Dilated Peoples approached the new album like they were making a bunch of 12-inches: “We weren’t worried about how it was going to ...

Knock, knock. Who is it? Hey White America, it’s Kanye, open up. Yo, what’s good … oh Babu, Evidence, and Rakaa … uh, come on in. Dilated Peoples’ third LP, Neighborhood Watch, sees the portly ...