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Sad news. The cause behind the sudden death of A$AP mob co-founder A$AP Yams was discovered. New York Times music writer Jon Caramanica tweeted that the New York City Chief Medical Examiner has determined the Harlem native died because of a "acute mixed drug intoxication...

ScienZe drops the ultra smooth "Bag Full of Hearts" featuring Niachene, Elle Pierre and Noah Bility. The is a new cut from the Brooklyn native who's been releasing consistently soulful songs each Tuesday for the last several weeks. "Bag Full of Hearts" is produced by his Divine ScienZe partner King I Divine...

Fresh off Rapsody scene stealing verse on Kendrick Lamar's "Complexion (A Zulu Love)" off of his To Pimp a Butterfly album, she drops a visual for "The Man." The track is off her recent 2014's Beauty and the Beast EP and is her "most emotionally attached to" record from the project. In the v...

Asher Roth is not going to posture for anyone. The perpetually blunted rapper, first vaulted to fame with his unassuming "I Love College," is settling nicely into his role as a cult artist, beloved by the crowd who owns boat shoes but probably not a boat...

T-Pain is back to his old auto-tuned ways in his new single, "Did It Anyway." Ahead of his DJ Drama-hosted mixtape, Pain is back with a wild story to tell. On "Did It Anyway," the platinum selling Nappy Boy switches back and forth between rapping and singing as he reminisces about reluctantly getting with a girl despite being tired and "drunk as a skunk." Ro... Read M

XXL Freshmen 2015 is coming and the freshman hopefuls are gearing up to possibly make this year’s class. With the 10th Spot voting happening now, we have to let the potentials tell us why they should appear on this year’s cover. Buzzing MIA rappe...

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Before the release of Action Bronson's major label full-length debut Mr. Wonderful, he dropped the hilarious mini-documentary. The video is just over three minutes and features "fans" who are deeply infatuated and down right worship Bronsolino in very special ways. The first individual st...

XXL Freshmen 2015 is coming and the freshman hopefuls are gearing up to possibly make this year’s class. With the10th Spot voting happening now, we have to let the potentials tell us why they should appear on this year’s cover. Detroit Rapp...

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is upon us, which, naturally, means one thing: codeine. Future has come out of his cough syrup cocoon to bless us all with "March Madness," an alternately slurred and staccato ode to Mark Cuban-furnished locker rooms and getting "higher than Mercury...

Mac Miller is being sued by '70s funk band Aquarian Dream for illegally sampling a song of theirs on his last mixtape. On his 2014 tape, Faces, the Pittsburgh MC sampled Aquarian Dream's 1978 single, "Yesterday (Was So Nice Today)" on the ID Labs-produced track, "Therapy...