You gotta love Nas. Last night a scathing email, addressed to Def Jam execs, leaked on to the Internet. It was allegedly written by God’s Son (Through an anonymous source close to the situation XXL has confirmed the validity of the email) and while the email looks believable like most things that leak on the Internet, it could very well be complete bullshit. In the email, which was addressed to LA Reid, Steve Bartels and a few other head honchos up at Island/Def Jam, Nas demands that the label put out his Lost Tapes 2 compilation album. ...

So, Def Jam didn't want to put out the Lost Tapes 2, because there's no business case to do so, and this is not ...

In the second time in as many months, I’m currently writing this while waiting for my flight in New York’s red-headed stepchild to their famed ...

Last night I had the pleasure of spinning for the New York stop of the Smoker’s Club tour. The show was typical of many rappity-rap ...

Oh, so that guy Chuck Phillips, the Scotty Templeton of hip-hop journalism, is behind the rumor that Jimmy Henchmen is a snitch, because he's pissed ...

The people have spoken. Last issue (September 2010), XXL asked readers to write blogs discussing either hip-hop’s current lack of battles or the art-versus-authenticity debate. ...

The incident that supposedly took place as a result of the BET Awards this past weekend was mind boggling for a number of reasons, not ...

I remember my dad reminiscing one day about how when hip-hop first started, his parents would say to him: "Turn that rap noise off. There's no ...

Kanye West didn’t invent the weekly viral hip-hop series, but he damn sure perfected it. When Crooked I spent 2007/2008 dropping freestyles with his “Hip-Hop Weekly” ...