Details Revealed on New Lil Boosie Album

Aug 14th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  26 Comments

Lil Boosie is officially back. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper is prepping his second solo set for Asylym and XXLMag.com has the details. Titled Superbad: The Return of Boosie Bad Azz, the album will contain 16 tracks and feature cameos from ...

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Alfamega was also a rolling stone

Aug 14th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  30 Comments

Alfamega should have known better than to fuck with the Smoking Gun. I guess he's been going around telling people that he isn't a government informant, and that the documents the Smoking Gun turned up earlier this year saying that he ...

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Lil Wayne’s Arizona Drug & Weapons Case Delayed

Aug 14th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  7 Comments

Lil Wayne’s attorneys were granted more time to build their defense yesterday (August 13) in the rapper’s drug and weapons case in Yuma, Arizona, stemming from a January 2008 arrest. According to local Arizona news network, KYMA, during the hearing on ...

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The New York Times: When Rappers Collide, in Cyberspace & Elsewhere

Aug 14th, '09  •  Affiliate News  •  by XXL Staff  •  No Comments

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Drake Goes Legit, So Far Gone Re-Packaged for Retail

Aug 14th, '09  •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  28 Comments

After singlehandedly catapulting him to stardom, Drake's critically-acclaimed mixtape, So Far Gone, will be repackaged for an official re-release. According to MTV News, the disc will fundamentally be the same as the original, but will now include a previously unreleased record, “Fear,” ...

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The Cipher Is Complete…

Aug 14th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  23 Comments

The Boot Camp Clik performed their 'A Tribute To Classics' show on Wednesday night in Brower Park. In the heart of Crown Heights they did classics from 'Enta Da Stage' and 'Dah Shinin'. This is the the very ...

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Video: Slaughterhouse, Run this Town

Aug 14th, '09  •  XXL Presents  •  by XXL Staff  •  7 Comments

Slaugherhouse speak on what city hosts the best lyricists...

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BLOG: Love Is All

Aug 14th, '09  •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  17 Comments

Hi, my name is Lana Moorer. You may know me by a name in which I came to be called much later in my life---MC LYTE. Before I hit the planet of Brooklyn, there was a man who was undoubtedly unhappily ...

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FEATURE: Crooked I, The Freestyler[Definitive Dozen]

Aug 14th, '09  •  News  •  by XXL Staff  •  11 Comments

[Editor's note: For our 12th-anniversary celebration, XXL speaks with 12 artists who’ve come up, and blown up, with the magazine. 50 Cent, Baby, Shyne, Dame Dash, Crooked I and more reflect on how we’ve affected their careers—and how they’ve affected ...

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