Ben Westhoff

Everything you know about Tupac is likely wrong. Casual fans think of him as a loyal left coast soldier in hip-hop’s East Coast/West Coast war, but he actually had tremendous love and admiration for New York, where he was born and largely raised. Others cite his 1994 Manhattan shooting as...

Lady Casa has 75,000 followers on Instagram, and largely owes her fame to it. Originally intending to be a physician's assistant, she quit her program at Nova Southeastern University in Davie and began dancing full-time at Miami clubs in 2011. The next year, following a show featuring megastar DJ Kaskade,...

Tommy Stinson is a good bassist and a tremendous fella who's best known for being in both the Replacements and Guns N' Roses. As he told us, dealing with the outsize egos of Paul Westerberg and Axl Rose hasn't been easy. But it's certainly had its rewards. Stinson has now...

Luther Campbell: Still nasty, an excerpt from Ben Westhoff's new book, Dirty South

When Rick Ross lumbered onto the national stage in 2006, he was something of a blank slate. Though he was a protégé of EPMD's Erick Sermon who had signed to venerable Southern labels Suave House and Slip-N-Slide, his story was largely unknown. His debut, Port of Miami, didn't fill in...