Show & Prove
Brisco

 •  Show & Prove  •  by XXL Staff  •  22 Comments

Just because Brisco spit his first rhyme over an Usher instrumental doesn’t mean the Opa Locka, Fla., goon is an R&B dude. “I took the beat to ‘You Make Me Wanna’ and made about eight different tracks to it,” says ...

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360
We Gon’ Make It

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  12 Comments

Two years ago, the talented Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Tears of the Sun) was tapped to direct a biopic about the life and death of Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G.). Initially funded by Fox Searchlight Pictures (the Koch of ...

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Editorial
Go Getta

 •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  4 Comments

Sittin’ on the crapper, watchin’ white rappers…and evidently I’m not the only one. That’s right—white, Black, Spanish and Asian (notice white is the only one not capitalized) folks have spoken, and not only can I sell magazines, but I can ...

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Better grab an umbrella

 •  Bloggers  •  by XXL Staff  •  80 Comments

They don't really make it rain in strip clubs here in St. Louis, but this summer I gotta go down to Atlanta for some shit, and I'm hoping to finally experience this phenomenon firsthand, if not actually participate myself. Trust ...

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Lil Wayne
Money In The Bank

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  352 Comments

Champions, it is said, are not made. They are born. Still, there are times when people seem to speak things into existence. Take the boxing legend Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali or, simply, “The Greatest.” Certainly, his achievements—his ...

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April 2007

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  40 Comments

COVER STORY MONEY IN THE BANK Don’t tell LIL WAYNE it’s a bad time for hip-hop. The Cash Money kid is sitting pretty, rolling in dough and rhyming circles around the competition. Features HOW WE LIVE Southern rap got fat while a pair of underground ...

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C-Murder Re-Trial Begins

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  23 Comments

C-Murder will appear in court today (February 26) to once again face murder charges for the 2002 shooting death of 16-year-old Steve Thomas inside of the Platinum Club in Jefferson Parish, La.. Miller was found guilty of the crime in ...

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