The Onion: DEA Recruits Lil Wayne to Use Up All Drugs in Mexico [Video]

Dec 8th, '09  •  Affiliate News  •  by XXL Staff  •  No Comments

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Chamillionaire to Perform at Fort Hood in Wake of Tragedy

Dec 8th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  15 Comments

Houston rapper Chamillionaire is set to perform in Fort Hood, Texas later this week, in the wake of the tragic shooting that took place at the army base last month, claiming the lives of 13 and wounding over 30 American ...

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Hip-Hop Dominates iTunes 2009 Top Sellers List

Dec 8th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  12 Comments

Hip-hop showed up in full force on iTunes’s 2009 Top Sellers list released earlier today (December 8). Coming in at no. 1 for the highest selling song of the year was the Black Eyed Peas’ monster smash “Boom Boom Pow.” Flo ...

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My Decade In Rap, Pt. 1 [2000-2002]

Dec 8th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  50 Comments

With end-of-the-decade lists dominating conversations on the blogsphere, I figure it’s a good as time as any to get mine out the way. Instead of creating a ranked “best of” list, I’ll share with you the decade of music as ...

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Come on Barbie, let’s go Barbie

Dec 8th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  48 Comments

I checked Twitter last night, to see if Tiger Woods' jumpoff count had reached the double digits (it had), and all people wanted to talk about was Nicki Minaj. My former colleague Sickamore was on there congratulating himself for trying to ...

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XXL Reviews Snoop Dogg’s Malice N Wonderland

Dec 8th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  37 Comments

Snoop Dogg Malice N Wonderland Capitol Beats: L Lyrics: L Originality: M Snoop Dogg’s tenth solo album, Malice N Wonderland, sounds like it should be dangerous. But instead of rapping about blunts, bottles and bitches, as he has done over the course of his 16-year ...

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XXL Reviews B.G.’s Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood

Dec 8th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  12 Comments

B.G. Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood Chopper City/E1/Atlantic Beats: L Lyrics: L Originality: L It’s hard to imagine mistaking B.G. as anything other than a street-wise Southern rapper who keeps it 10 toes down in the hood. Nonetheless, his eleventh solo album, Too Hood 2 ...

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Timbaland Gives Free Performance in NYC Tonight

Dec 8th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  6 Comments

Timbaland will be giving a short, free performance at J&R Music and Computer World in lower Manhattan tonight (December 8). Upon purchasing Timbo’s new album, Shock Value II, fans will receive a wristband, giving them access to both an in-store concert ...

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I’m With That Black Shit

Dec 8th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  32 Comments

Seems to me black folks have gotten a little too comfy. I don’t know if it’s because we have gained the right to snatch a mic out of a young white woman’s hands and say some ole off-the-wall shit or ...

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