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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...

Singer, songwriter, producer and general creative guru The-Dream has teamed up with Genius to give insight on songs on which he worked with major artists like Jay Z, Kanye West, Beyonce and Rihanna. This is part of a large initiative by the iconoclastic tech start-up to broaden its readership and become a hub for straight-from-the-artist anecdotes about the making of and meaning behind their most

YOU GOTTA BE COURAGEOUS TO DANCE #KANYESDANCE A video posted by Sean Diddy Combs (@iamdiddy) on Mar 16, 2015 at 5:28pm PDT Earlier this month, Kanye took a break during one of his shows following Paris Fashion Week to show off some unexpectedly lithe dance moves...

Drake announced the line-up for the 2015 OVO Fest. J. Cole plus his Dreamville artists Bass, Cozz and Omen will be joined by Big Sean, YG and Jeremih as performers. Drake tweeted out the weekend's full lineup of the two day concert, which features a extra day that includes Kevin Hart (presumably a new stop on Hart's comedy tour). On the l...

The maxim says that no press is bad press, but Drake and his team evidently disagree. With a film called Drake's Homecoming: The Lost Footage scheduled to hit theaters this Thursday (March 19) for a one-night limited engagement, the Canadian rapper and his OVO team--to say nothing of his legal counsel--are trying to distance themselves from the project...

When Kendrick Lamar released his sophomore LP To Pimp A Butterfly Sunday night a week before its scheduled March 23 release date, the hip-hop world collectively lost its mind sifting through the LP to attempt to uncover its secrets. Wit...

Trinidad Jame$ was Don Lemon's most recent guest on CNN Tonight last night (March 16) and spoke on the use of the n-word in pop culture and its affect on society overall.  Lemon kicks off the conversation by mentioning the video of Sigma Alpha Epsilon's house mother saying the N-word as she recites lyrics to James' banger "All Gold Everything." The Tri...