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This week's SXSW festival in Austin promises to be, as always, one of the year's premier grounds for discovering new music and seeing old acts play for intimate crowds. With their annual Woodie Awards, MTV has packed a star-studded roster into the usually ramped annual fesitivities...

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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. Bas was the ...

Rappers love to show that they're living good and eating better. Often on an equally extravagant place setting, MCs are snapping and posting more and more pics of their five star meals, presumably to make us all hungry and jealous. Since you are what you eat, on tour or at home, these guys are getting in their 2,000 calories the most indulgent way possible...

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. Chicago rapper, A...

Young Thug is really going to call his next project Carter 6. In the middle of Lil Wayne and Birdman legal battle, Thugger is serious about continuing Weezy's Tha Carter franchise even though Tha Carter V isn't out yet. He shared a snippet of his verse from Lil Wayne’s “Gridnin” remix on his Instagram. On The Whoolywood ...

Today was a good day @sorellaboutique A photo posted by Heather Sanders (@heathersanders_) on Mar 4, 2015 at 6:33pm PST Meet the beautiful and independent Heather Sanders. The fashion-forward businesswoman from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas serves as CEO of Sorella Boutique, located in Los Angeles, California...

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. OG Maco's br...

Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album, To Pimp A Butterfly, has been all the talk since its unexpected release last Sunday night. The album, which has been well received by fans of the T.D.E. rapper, is also being highly praised by Kendrick's peers in the music industry...

ILoveMakonnen lets loose a new freestyle and announces that he'll be releasing a new mixtape, Drink More Water 5, on March 31. While fans wait on Makonnen's debut LP, the new mixtape will hopefully serve as a nice appetizer before he lets loose his album that reportedly features Drake, Diplo, Rihanna, Skrillex, Snoop Dogg and many more. Check ou...

Wiz Khalifa has embedded himself rather seamlessly in the fabric of American pop culture--no small feat for a lanky guy from Pittsburgh who mostly just wants to get high. Last night (March 16) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Blacc Hollywood rapper performed "See You Again," his single from the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Furious 7...

There was a time not too long ago when hip-hop looked at Charles Hamilton as the next great lyricist poised to take over the game. An insane mixtape grind in 2008 landed him a deal with Interscope, a spot on XXL's 2009 Freshmen cover and the status and pressure that comes with being the anointed one sent to save the genre from its more narcissistic and ostentatious vanity. Thi...