The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into ...

“Alexandra remarked that all the rap songs seemed to put women down. They were demeaning,” (possibly) Brian Wilson wrote. “I agreed and said we should try to write a positive rap.

The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions ...

Wilson introduced “Smart Girls” as “It’s a white rap song, that’s all I can say for it … we figured we could do our own brand of rap.” Read more:13 of the late Brian Wilson’s ...

Here's the story of his lost rap anthem. Smart Girls is a stultifying ... to test the world's capacity to embrace MC Brian Wilson. Of all the songs on Sweet Insanity, Smart Girls was the one ...

Here's the story of his lost rap anthem. Smart Girls is a stultifying ... to test the world's capacity to embrace MC Brian Wilson. Of all the songs on Sweet Insanity, Smart Girls was the one ...