New Music

Logic teams up with Big K.R.I.T. for "Top Ten." After getting 400,000 followers on Twitter last night, the Visionary Music Group artist put out a loose track to thank his fans. "Top Ten" is fire. Logic drops Mortal Kombat references (look at the sick cover art) while proclaiming that he's one of the best in hip-hop right now. His flow on the 6ix-pro...

G-Unit is currently preparing to drop their second EP, The Beast is G-Unit, which drops Mar. 3. In the meantime, the South Jamaica, Queens rap group has dropped a new track, "I'm Grown." Serving as the first single off the upcoming project, Guerilla Unit lets haters know that they "do what f*ck want to" on the club banger. The track can...

Inglewood's Skeme returns, wavy as Max B, steering ships steady, fearing early death, talking fly shit. The swaggering new "Red Carpet (Roll Out)" is a slow burn, its creeping piano line and staid drums a perfect palette for Skeme's scowl...

Open Mike Eagle drops his latest track “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” which was produced Oddisee. The song off of the Mello Music Group’s annual label compilation Persona. Persona hits stores March 10. Other artists and producers featured on the label compilation include Apollo Brown, L’Orange, Rapper Big Pooh, Red Pill, Quelle Chris, Masta Ace, Oh No, Kool Keith, yU, Nottz and others. Over the sup

Independent rap kingpin Tech N9ne returns with this brand new track "Hood Go Crazy" featuring 2 Chainz and B.o.B. The song premiered this morning on Power 106 in Los Angeles. This is the first single from Tech's upcoming Special Effect album, due out May 5 on Strange Music. "Hood Go...

Zuse releases "Rigamaro" featuring Runway Richy exclusively through XXL. "Rigamaro," which stands for remix, is chilling. Over a head-slapping FKi-produced beat, the Jamaican-born MC delivers the hook and goes unconscious for his verse showing off his dancehall/trap hybrid flow...

A$AP Ferg released the video for "Dope Walk" and it featured his new BFF Cara Delevingne. Ferg and the supermodel got into a crazy Instagram walk off because of the Harlem native's lyrics ("My walk's meaner than Cara Delevingne"). The cool thing about "Dope Walk" is that the entire video is shot from Ferg's iPhone while traveling through New York Fashion Week events a

Having recently remixed Iggy Azalea's Charli XCX-featuring smash hit, "Fancy," So So Def veteran Da Brat is trying her hand at more cutting-edge fare. Taking to Soundcloud, she dropped her remix of Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen," a decidedly avant garde flip for the esteemed veteran...

Tommy Brown, the producer behind T.I.'s "New National Anthem" and other hits, has decided to step out from behind the boards. Making his first appearance in front of the mic, Brown enlisted singer Eric Bellinger and SEO god Travi$ Scott for "Trippin' On Me," a song that Brown describes as being about "typical woman insecurity...

Off Shy Glizzy's impressive Law 3 mixtape, the video for "Everything Golden" is released today exclusively with XXL. If you haven't heard Glizzy's tape then you need to immediately. "Everything Golden" is boastful reminder to all of Glizzy's old flames that they missed out on a good catch. The...

Boldy James' new mixtape, Trappers Alley 2, is due out Feb. 27 and today he drops off the first cut off that project called "Bet That Up" featuring Snootie Wild and 2014 XXL Freshman Kevin Gates. The track, produced by GoGrizzly and DrumBender, is a drug dealer's anthem with Boldy spitting street tales, Snootie coming with his melodic flow and Gates lacing the whole thing with one of his

New Interscope signee Jay 305 has dropped off his latest work, the DJ Mustard-produced, Joe Moses-featuring "Thuggin'." While the rappers are quick to eschew any notions of glitz or glamor, Mustard brings his trademark bounce, making "Thuggin'" the perfect piece of late-night menace at your next house party...