Five things I learned watching Precious

Nov 30th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  44 Comments

With all due respect, past and present, and without further to do. 1) Fat chicks cannot hold they fried chicken. I was on the fence about seeing Precious, because Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are involved. Normally, I wouldn't want to contribute ...

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Busta Rhymes Bails Out on South African Bay Summer Concert

Nov 30th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  11 Comments

Busta Rhymes angered fans over the weekend, by skipping out on a performance at the Bay Summer Concert in South Africa’s newly completed Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. According to Port Elizabeth’s Weekend Post, Busta was scheduled to headline the event last ...

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A Tribe Called Quest Doc Coming in 2010, Says Director Michael Rapaport

Nov 30th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  23 Comments

Over two years ago fans of A Tribe Called Quest first learned that Nas and New York actor Michael Rapaport (Higher Learning, Bamboozled) were working on a documentary on the seminal Native Tongues outfit. In a recent interview with Soul Assassins radio on ...

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Snoop Dogg Lends Voice to GPS, XXL Has Copy for Giveaway

Nov 30th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  9 Comments

"Take a lizzeft, biatch!" Snoop Dogg has partnered with voiceskins.com to launch his own GPS system today (November 30) and XXLMag.com is offering one lucky reader the chance to win one. The application formats your GPS system to deliver directions in ...

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Hits For Days (Inside XXL‘s Internet Issue)

Nov 30th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  12 Comments

There’s nothing like a great win. Just shutting haters up with a victory. Leaving it to where they can’t really say anything at all. 50 Cent knows those haters. And he knows those wins. He just had a big one ...

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FEATURE: 50 Cent, War Games

Nov 30th, '09  •  News  •  by XXL Staff  •  32 Comments

Photography by Clay Patrick McBride 50 Cent has just discovered his next big thing. The multimillionaire MC/mogul is commanding attention inside Manhattan’s Drive-In studio, where he’s shooting cover images for XXL's double issue, gearing up for the release of his fourth album, ...

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TI Might Be The Gulliest Rapper Of All Time

Nov 29th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  57 Comments

Inspired by the homie Tony Grands and my dude from down under, Robbie of Unkut fame. I was surfing the Internets last week when I read a post about how TI is supposed to be getting out of jail soon. Plus ...

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The Ron Artest Show

Nov 25th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  27 Comments

This may be Captain Obvious moment of the year, but that aspiring rapster Ron Artest is an enigma to me. He consistently exhibits the behavior of a nigga who fucks with the Leon Isaac Kennedy; that Sherman Hemsley; The Love ...

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Shakur the video ho is underrated

Nov 25th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  23 Comments

When it was announced that XXL readers would be allowed to vote for this year's Video Ho, ahem, Eye Candy of the Year, I was hoping it would be between Rosa Acosta and Shakur. Between the two of them, they've changed ...

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