You wanna know what my junior high school days were like back in the '90s. Joell Ortiz hit it right on the nose. Boy, things done changed. A friend of mine teaches junior high over in East NY and he bestowed me with one helluva story. And it goes a lil' somethin' like this. Apparently, one of the bullies in his classroom was going around punching his classmates in their *ahem* private area and then screaming, “No Homo!" Wow. You don’t wanna hear me talk about homophobia in hip-hop and I don’t wanna read your comments about it, either. What's the point? This guy ...

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Stack Bundles Hip-Hop’s Savior Red Carpet Music Group Beats: L Lyrics: XL Originality: L Though he never released an official album, Far Rockaway, N.Y. rapper Stack Bundles reportedly recorded hundreds ...

Confession time: A few weeks ago, I saw where World Star had posted a video by an artist that I was pretty sure was a ...

What up, XXLMag.com readers? I just got back from week-long vacay so I’ma lil' out the loop on rap news. But while I was ...

As much as we complain about politics, how many of us would have the balls to whoop one of these politicians asses, if given the ...