XXL Mag

If you've navigated to this article on XXL's website, you have certainly had to weed through debates about Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and the MTV Video Music Awards to get here. Yesterday (July 21), Nicki took to Twitter to vent her frustrations about her massively popular "Anaconda" video being left off the nominee list for Video of the Year. Min...

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Baseball and hip-hop don't have the same relationship as the music and culture does with basketball, but the Straight Outta Cooperstown Tumblr page is looking to change that. The genius who came up with the concept reimagined historic baseball cards and replaced the heads of players with the bust of a rapper. With tha...

Run This Town Taraji P. Henson keeps rising to the top. Words Clover Hope Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the October 2009 issue of XXL Magazine featuring Jay Z on the cover, with the second half running as outtakes online. It's...

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 ...