XXL Mag

One of the sneakers set to return this summer is the Nike Air 3 LE, the signature shoe of basketball superstar Kevin Garnett. Last released in 2009, the silhouette was quick to sale out and now, with the recent announcement of the shoes re-release, sneakerheads are already praising Nike for this upcoming drop...

Chris Miles rhymes effortlessly on top of a Blended Babies-produced beat for his latest single, “Out Here.” While the young New York MC has been on a nationwide tour this month, he finds time to release a new record where over a sick vocal sample and a thumping bass beat about traveling and taking people's girlfriends. "I got that Middle Easter...

With Straight Outta Compton due out in theaters August 14, the film's actors and namesake are beginning their press run and will appear on the upcoming cover of The Hollywood Reporter. The lengthy feature story describes N.W.A.'s history, ...

In a bizarre turn of events, Chris Brown is stuck in the Philippines--at last check, he was being held until he paid promoters for no-showing at a scheduled appearance last New Years Eve. This news comes just a day after the singer had yet another emotional tirade on Instagram (this time, it was about how his "soul will always be pure of heart")...

iLoveMakonnen links up with Sonny Digital for ”Leave It There.” This mid-tempo song has Makonnen crooning about ending his relationship with his significant other. "You've been acting sorta strange and kinda wild/I ain't even seen you lately, in a while/I think you've been trippin' bae, you should stop/You should just take it back from the start," raps Makonnen. The song i...

The Roots were once buried in rap's underground, toiling in the kind of obscurity that heady, abrasive underground rap records from Philadelphia are bound to lead you to. Then there was the "What They Do" video, then Things Fall Apart, then the Grammy for "You Got Me." Fr...

Rick Ross kicks 50 Cent while he's down with his verse on "Wing Stop (Remix)." Fif is currently battling it out in court with Rozay's baby mama, Lastonia Leviston, and with Fifty's financial issues in the spotlight, Ross throws shots at his former rival and revisits a feud that was once the talk of the hip-hop world ...

Rap supergroup Slaughterhouse—Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, and Royce Da 5’9″—link up for “R.N.S.” video. The Just Blaze and araabMUZIK-produced songs has a sick guitar sample, which meshes well with the booming bass. Match that with the crew's aggressive r...

Kid Ink's status in the music world has him enjoying all of life's spoils in his video for "Faster," a cut from his Full Speed album. Speeding through the desert in a Ferrari, Ink makes his way to a dark lit club where he's met with plenty of pre rolled blunts and bottles of tequila. The resu ...

The title of Lil Wayne's Free Weezy Album might go down as one of the most loaded in the history of rap music. The record, which dropped on the 4th of July, exclusively on Tidal, is not only a plea to be released from Wayne's Melville-length deal with Cash Money Records; it's also, literally, a free album. Only now...

Pharrell finally drops the video for his explosive new song, "Freedom," which originally premiered on Apple Music. Skateboard P is seen in a bunch of settings from a baptism, to a church sermon and in a multitude of other countries showing a plethora of ethnic groups along the way...