Crash

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You know being from the south gives you an opportunity to see how the racial profiling dynamic “really” works. Now….now….before errbody goes and thinks this is the moment I go all “Huey” (Newton or Boondocks), it isn’t (that ain’t ...

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FEATURE: Yo! Bum Rush the Show

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Stage crashing seems to be the latest hip-hop trend. Earlier this summer, T-Pain waltzed into Jay-Z's set as he was performing "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)" during Hot 97's Summer at Giants Stadium. Last night's MTV Video Music Awards featured not one, ...

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What was Kanye thinking?

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This weekend began with me missing that Jay-Z 9/11 "tribute" concert on Fuse, and it ended with me missing the VMAs last night on MTV. In between, I worked a couple of shifts at the BGM and gorged myself on ...

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Infinite

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In the XXL office, there’s a wall that has almost all of the covers the magazine has ever done posted in chronological order. That includes the multiple or split covers we’ve done, but none of the first 12 issues—that’s a ...

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FEATURE: Time To Build

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Jay-Z is no stranger to success. For all intents and purposes, his career started on June 25, 1996, when he released his seminal debut, Reasonable Doubt. By September 10, 2001, he was one of ...

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