The secret plan to rehabilitate Lil Wayne’s career

Feb 4th, '10  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  22 Comments

It became clear to me, yesterday, when I saw Lil Wayne on the cover of the new Rolling Stone, that the TIs are sending him to prison on purpose, to get his career back in order. The dead giveaway was the ...

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Foxy Brown Targets Lil Kim & Jay-Z on New Diss Track

Feb 4th, '10  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  12 Comments

Foxy Brown is still taking shots at her longtime rival Lil Kim along with former ally Jay-Z. On her new track “Let Em Know,” Foxy recycles a diss made about Kim’s appearance on the ABC series Dancing with the Stars on ...

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Nipsey Hussle, The Making of “We Are the World 2010″

Feb 4th, '10  •  News  •  by XXL Staff  •  14 Comments

Nipsey Hussle has had an incredible year. First he built a deafening buzz on the streets with his Bullets Have No Name mixtape series, then he earned a spot on tour with Snoop Dogg and things are continuing to look ...

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NahRight: Just Blaze Relocates Studio

Feb 4th, '10  •  Affiliate News  •  by XXL Staff  •  No Comments

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Don’t Feed Da Animals, ’Cause They Might Drop 28 Mixtapes in A Month

Feb 4th, '10  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  35 Comments

The other night as I lay in my bed (pause), ready to turn my swag off after a long day of hip-hop work at 1115 Broadway, I felt an unexplained emptiness—a yearning, if you will. In this day and age ...

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Lil Wayne on Track to Sell 150K in First-Week Sales

Feb 4th, '10  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  22 Comments

Album pushbacks, leaks, switching genres; none of this concerns Lil Wayne fans. Apparently, the rap superstar is set to sell between 140,000 and 150,000 copies of his new rock-influenced album Rebirth. Industry insiders hitsdailydouble.com came up with the impressive projections after ...

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Black Eyed Peas & Young Money Only Rap Acts on Billboard Top 40

Feb 3rd, '10  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  28 Comments

One week before the inevitable Grammy push, hip-hop’s presence was severely lacking on the Billboard 200 sales chart, released today (February 3). The Hope for Haiti Now album, which features tracks from such hip-hop artists as Jay-Z and Wyclef Jean, dropped ...

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WoooHa: Preview of VH1′s Famous Crime Scenes With Tupac & B.I.G. [Video]

Feb 3rd, '10  •  Affiliate News  •  by XXL Staff  •  No Comments

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Pussy TKO

Feb 3rd, '10  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  37 Comments

It's about time the Game took his trolling to the next level. For years now, he's been letting us in on more than we needed to know about the girls he'd like to fuck, and the girls he wouldn't like to ...

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