XXL Originals

Lately Rich Homie Quan and Birdman have been spending quite a lot of time in the studio together. XXL caught up with Rich Homie Quan last night at Wiz Khalifa's Under The Influence of Music Tour and during the chat the rapper revealed that he's currently looking to pen a deal with Cash Money Records...

Where should you go for up to date Rap and Hip-hop videos? None other than the XXL youtube page of course. We've got everything from an archive of Freshman Class videos that will blow you away, to rare clips of rappers before they blew up (be sure to check out our video of Kendrick Lamar singing karaoke)...

ScHoolboy Q has been on a massive worldwide tour for Oxymoron. If you noticed, during the process Q has lost a ton of weight and is getting back to the shape he was when he entered the rap game. The TDE member shares with XXL how he lost 30 lbs and how his mother used to make fun of him...

ScHoolboy Q is a busy man. While visiting New York City, XXL asked Groovy Q what is the craziest groupie he encountered on his Oxymoron tour. The answer Q gives is priceless. Watch above. Also, read below for Q and Footaction's collaboration for a consumer-curated "Man Of The Year" (Remix). ScHoo...

Go behind the scenes of MF Doom and Bishop Nehru's upcoming EP, Nehruvian Doom. We got an exclusive studio time interview with the mysterious rapper overseas in London, England, to discuss the new EP, being a mentor to Bishop and what we can expect from the release...

DMX hasn’t put out an album since Undisputed which came out in 2012, but you can hear him freestyle at the XXL office mere hours after he was released from jail. So, turn back the clocks to the year 2011, as we look back at a series of videos we did with DMX in the summer of yesteryear. ...

XXL held our Freshmen 2014 Live show at the Best Buy Theater in New York City on Monday, and we've got your front row pass right here. Nine of our 12 Freshmen performed at the show, and special guests such as Fabolous, Busta Rhymes and Kid Ink swung through to help celebrate performances by Jon Connor, Jarren Benton, Lil Bibby, August Alsina, Kevin Gates, Vic Mensa, Rich Homie Quan, Troy Ave and T

When the new Starz Original Series, Power, debuts on June 7, hip-hop heads everywhere will be glued to their screens. Executive produced by the hip-hop superstar 50 Cent, the show tells the story of James “Ghost” St. Patrick, a big-...

T-Pain Sings The SpongeBob Squarepants Theme The title really says it all. We could try and search for deeper meaning here, but here are the cold hard facts: T-Pain came into the XXL office, we played Jenga for 20 mins, and when asked what his favorite TV show was, he said SpongeBob SquarePants with little to no hesitation...

As LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been the talk of not only the sports world lately, but just about every media outlet on the planet, 50 Cent now gives his take on the Sterling saga...

Today we gave you Brooklyn's own Troy Ave. as part of  XXL‘s 2014 Freshmen list revealed last Mon., May 5, on BET’s 106 & Park.  The BSB leader celebrated his spo...

Go behind the scenes with the girls of Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out in their June/July Eye Candy photo shoot—you can thank us later. Kaylin Garcia, Sasha DelValle and Grace Ko prove that comedy isn't the only reason people are tuning in to the MTV staple, with a photo shoot so mind-numbingly hot, we had to send the interns home with doctor's notes. P...