If Dr. Dre is so desperate for an excuse to promote Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, how come he can't just compile a disc's worth of throwaways from the first two Chronic albums and release that? He could still call it Detox, if he wanted to. I wouldn't even be that upset. I'm just afraid that he's gonna put out an entire album's worth of songs that sound like this song "Kush" that hit the Internets last night, and it's gonna be the saddest thing in hip-hop since that DVD of Big Pun pistol whipping his wife for failing to ...

I still read newspapers. Love them, in fact. Back when I made my own schedule as a freelance writer, I would devour the Daily News, ...

I don’t really know anyone who’s planning on copping Cassidy’s fourth studio album, C.A.S.H., which stands for either “Cass a Straight Hustla” or “Cass Always ...

Let’s get right to the awkward introduction: Hi, my name is Thomas Golianopoulos and I’m the new features editor at XXL. Over the past decade, ...

That Jay Electronica-Willow Smith collabo I've been hoping for just got one step closer to fruition: It was announced at some point in between ...

Yawn! There’s yet another Trending Topic on Twitter bashing our women called #thingsblackgirlsdo. It bugs me out at the amount of disrespect that's shown ...

When I saw that Charles Hamilton was a trending topic on Twitter this afternoon, of course my mind immediately went to the worst case scenario: ...

One light year away from hell, a million miles from where I wanna be. Seems like yesterday I was sittin’ in a federal detention center; no ...

It’s been three days since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy made its way onto the Internets, and for the most part I’ve seen more positive ...