A New Orleans hip-hop flashback with the Big Tymers is your midday music break. Voodoo Music Experience Mannie Fresh. PETER FOREST PHOTO Mannie Fresh, seen here at the Red Bulletin Stage during VooDoo Fest in New Orleans on Sunday, ...

Founded by Charles “Big Boy” Temple along with the producer Leroy “Precise” Edwards, Big Boy was a force in the development of New Orleans hip-hop. Beginning in around 1993, the label put out hard-edged bounce and lyrical gangsta rap by artists like ...

Notably, unlike a lot of New Orleans hip-hop artists, she doesn't rap over her own vocal track. She has upbeat party songs as well as more introspective numbers, such as the lyrical "Wake Me Up," which recounts her dreams of fame ("All I wanted was a ...

New Orleans hip-hop devotees had a chance to relive the early days of that music scene on Sunday when Big Boy Records invited some of its most prominent artists for a revue at the Howln' Wolf. Big Boy, along with Cash Money, dominated the New Orleans ...

The crew, whose name is short for innovation, was an early standout at the New Orleans Hip-Hop Experience revue, doing their first number in old-school rap style with turntables, and the second (also about wanting to get famous quick) with guitars ...

In the early '90s, Percy Miller, AKA Master P, tapped into a thriving but underdeveloped New Orleans hip-hop scene to create No Limit Records. With its solid gold military tank logo, No Limit deployed a fierce unit of rappers under Master P's command, ...