Seeing the list of trending topics on Twitter last night filled with the most random of black musicians mostly served as a reminder that the term Black People Twitter had its origin in one of these BET award shows. A year or so ago, white people logged on to Twitter, saw a similar list of trending topics and were like, Tha fuck? Did black people - not regular (by Internets standards) black people, but the kind of black people who still know what channel BET is on - all just discover Twitter at once, as if its URL was sent out ...

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So Dipset is back huh? Earlier this week a promotional video featuring Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey hit the net. And though ...

One of my earliest posts here at the temple of doom was on the needy factor that’s prevalent within the hip hop culture, how its ...

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At the risk of drawing the ire of the all-important Internets community, I’ll say that I was never the biggest Jay Dee fan. Sure, he ...

So the first week numbers for Thank Me Later are finally in. According to SoundScan, after a week in stores and digital outlets, Aubrey "Drake" ...

I love teams in rap. There’s something about a team’s chemistry that makes me nod my head a little harder whenever I’m bumping their songs. ...

If you follow XXL on Twitter, then you may have noticed that a few of us took a weekend trip down to Atlanta to partake ...