XXL Mag

There's a new dance to learn, but this one's not too hard. What started as a regional down South adlib is quickly becoming a masterful maneuver in clubs and on street corners. It's called dabbin'. We all know in hip-hop, one slang word can have many different meanings...

If there's one young artist who understand how important visuals are, it's OG Maco. The 2015 XXL Freshman drops another stellar music video, this time for "Gang," which is off his EP Live Life 2. The film is mostly a mix of footage from one of his concerts and night escapades however the cinematography is pretty crisp...

Fans of Vince Staples who are used to the rapper spitting gritty street tales over dark production will be surprised by "Ghost," his collab with supergroup With You. Over a uptempo, house instrumental, Vince lays slaughter to the track showing off his versatility and why he was an obvious choice for this year's Freshmen class ...

Last night (Aug. 4), XXL got an opportunity to get get advance screening of the highly anticipated movie, Sneakerheadz. Dedicated to the sneaker culture, director/producer/screenwriter, David T. Friendly and Mick Partridge do an amazing job of capturing the essence of a sneakerhead and the cultural influence of the lifestyle...

New Orleans natives Curren$y and Chase N Cashe connect on "The Plug." This joint is a leak from the Cathedral EP, five new songs from Spitta that are produced entirely by Cashe.  Judging by the social media posts sent by Andretti, the project came together rather quickly: Wanna take 5 of these Andretti x @ChaseNCashe jernts? form an ep an ... Read More ...

Joell Ortiz plays a ruthless assassin with a penchant for machetes in the new video to "Lil Piggies," which is off his collaborative album with !llmind titled Humans. The visual looks like a scene out of Tarantino's 2007 film Grindhouse and Robert Rodriguez's 2010 film Machete. It's dark and find...

Angel Haze is not the girl you think she is. In fact, she's not a girl at all. Instead, the Detroit-born MC identifies as agender, meaning neither masculine or feminine, and stresses that pronouns like "he" and "she" not be used. Like the grunge-meets-Eazy-E inspired fashion sense or agile, militant new lyrical prowess the MC possesses, it's just one more way Haze defies every

Boosie BadAzz puts the pen to the paper and writes a heartfelt letter to the late, great Tupac Shakur. Boosie waxes poetically about his favorite Pac songs, the rapper's  influence on his own career and updates the slain MC on everything going on in the rap world and in reality. Boo ...

Killer Mike jumps on the remix for Glasses Malone and Kendrick Lamar's "Thuggin" and delivers one of the verses of the year. The original song is off of Malone's upcoming album Glass House 2, which drops sometime this year. While taking shots at Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo Rivera, Don Lemon and Wolf Blitzer, Mike spits bars about oppression, corruption in the just

HUF drops their second footwear delivery for the upcoming fall season. Incorporating a hand-selected range of materials, including quality Italian tumbled leathers, waxed nubuck, and canvas, the second delivery of HUF consists of earth tone color palettes featuring an array of prints...

Things aren't all G.O.O.D. in CyHi The Prince's world and the rapper gets militant on his diss record, "Elephant In The Room." Throwing shots at Kanye West, Teyana Taylor, Pusha T and Big Sean, CyHi threatens to take out everyone then run up in the Def Jam offices and unload a clip ...

The infamous Gunplay, aka Don Logan, has finally released his long-awaited Def Jam debut, Living Legend.