New bangers from UGK & Willie D, Clipse & Bilal, Styles & Gerald Levert, Obie & Cashis, Snoop and Ghostface are up now!

Nov 22nd, '06 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • 2 Comments

GQ thinks Lupe is pretty swell.

Nov 22nd, '06 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • No Comments

Hova hearts Fall Out Boy fans.

Nov 22nd, '06 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • No Comments

Jay-Z makes Paris Hilton puke. Or maybe it was the booze.

Nov 22nd, '06 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • 2 Comments

T.I. vs. Jay-Z vs. The Game

Nov 22nd, '06 • Bloggers • by XXL Staff • 357 Comments

First of all, I should note that this week Soundscan numbers are in. The Game had the highest selling album of the week, having sold about 358,000 copies of the Doctor's Advocate. Granted, this is far short of the one million ...

Noz gives his two cents on Nas’ new namedrop rap.

Nov 22nd, '06 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • No Comments

YN’s Breakaday: Cinco On It

Nov 22nd, '06 • Bloggers • by XXL Staff • 20 Comments

Mel & Tim "Keep The Faith" (1974) Genya Raven "Whipping Post" (1974) Marc Hannibal "Forever Is A Long, Long Time" (1969) Edwin Starr "Easin' In" (1974) Idris Muhammad "Say What" (1977) ...

The Game’s Album The Doctor’s Advocate Debuts at #1

Nov 22nd, '06 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • 508 Comments

The Game leads this week’s pop charts with his sophomore offering The Doctor's Advocate, which sold 358,000 copies in it's first week, easily surpassing his closest competitor by over 75,000 records. Debuting at #2 is singer/songwriter Akon, who sold 283,000 ...

The Mike Jordan of recordin’

Nov 21st, '06 • Bloggers • by XXL Staff • 253 Comments

There's plenty of other interesting shit going on in hip-hop today, but today's the day the new Jay-Z album comes out, so that's all going to have to take a back seat. I already gave it the once over on ...