A Bay Area rapper was shot after refusing to turn over his watch during an armed robbery late Thursday inside an East Hollywood recording studio ... downtown L.A. This story originally appeared in Los ...

The Watts-bred rapper allegedly fled before being detained, with police finding a gun in his vehicle afterward.

The 39-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department at 5:20 p.m. in the 13000 block of East 115th Street, according to a department ...

A San Francisco rapper is in critical condition after he was shot while refusing to hand over his watch during an attempted robbery in Los Angeles, authorities said. Stacey Gilton, known onstage as ...

US authorities have taken a longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who investigators say ran a “mafia-like” criminal ...

Grammy Award-winning rapper Jay Rock was arrested in Watts on Thursday by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The rapper and LA native, whose legal name is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was arrested ...

Grammy award-winning rapper Jay Rock was arrested by Los Angeles police on March 13. According to LAPD records, he was taken in near the Watts public housing complex where he grew up and was ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rapper Jay Rock was arrested in Los Angeles Thursday evening, according to jail records. The rapper, whose real name is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was arrested for possession of a ...