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The 2015 MTV VMA nominations are here. The nods were announced this morning via Beats 1 Radio. Kendrick Lamar gets the most nominations, receiving  four nominations as a lead artist  and nine as a featured artist because of songs like Taylor Swift's Bad Blood (remix) and Flying Lotus' “Never Catch Me.” His 13 nominations matches L...

Last night, Rocksmith and Mass Appeal partnered up for an epic roof top party that celebrated the first day of the lifestyle fashion trade show, Agenda. Held at the Slamxhype headquarters in midtown NYC, the roof top event included an open bar courtesy of Jameson and Avion tequila...

Lil Wayne was removed off a private jet because he started smoking weed on the plane. TMZ reports after Wayne and his crew boarded the plane, the Young Money CEO told the pilot that they wanted to smoke weed during the flight. The pilot informed Weezy that they couldn't. How...

Kirko Bangz is the newest signee to 300 Entertainment. Kirko has signed to 300 as part of the label’s new strategic partnership with Unauthorized Entertainment/LMG Music Group. “I had a lot of success with Todd Moscowitz with ‘Drank In My Cup,’ and I’ve been working with Selim for over four years, so doing this partnership with them is just like I’m going back to the home team. I feel like LeBron

Doin' Lines: Gucci Mane The locked up Atlanta icon fills in the blanks. As told to Emmanuel C.M. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of XXL Magazine featuring our 2015 XXL Freshman Class. Check out everything from our Freshman issue right here. 1...

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After previously running through "Alphabet Aerobics" by Blackalicious on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Radcliffe took to a karaoke stage recently to try his hand at an even more famous song. With his girlfriend, actress and Upright Citizens Brigade alum Erin Darke in tow, Radcliffe skated through Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" with ease. Tho...

For the first few months of 2015, it seemed as if Kanye West's new album was imminent. Then called So Help Me God, the record, which would be West's seventh, was teased by the singles "Only One" and "FourFiveSeconds," both featuring Paul McCartney, the latter with an assist from Rihanna. They wer...

Mick Jenkins announces his new EP Wave, the follow-up to his fantastic project The Water he released last year. Jenkins released the Hayveyah McGowan's album art and the tracklist/production credit for Wave. Kaytranada, Lee Bannon, ThemPeople and more were called to produce on the EP. Wave drops out August 2...

There is a song towards the business end of Future's third solo album, DS 2, called "The Percocet & Stripper Joint." Rarely has any artist so effectively and outwardly summed up their own level of hedonism and self-destruction in a single song title. And rig...

Last week, a group of armed men broke into Chris Brown's California home, held his aunt at gunpoint and ransacked the place. According to Brown's aunt (who is luckily okay) and to authorities, the men who broke in were looking specifically for a $50,000 cash payout the singer had received from a recent club appearance...