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The Jordan Brand returns with another retro that we have yet to see in quite some time, the Air Jordan 13 "Grey Toe." The upcoming silhouette will feature a maroon colorway on the heel and part of the midsole, along with a grey color on the toe, tongue and laces of the sneaker...

While Jay Z has a thing for the Big Body Benzes, fellow Brooklynite Troy Ave has a thing for Ferraris. It's a symbol of success in the video for "So Ambitious" featuring Avon Blocksdale. The visual is definitely one of the more high-concept ones in Troy Ave's catalogue...

There’s plenty of new music to sift through. How do you know what is good or bad? Well, that’s where we come in. Aside from a busy week of interesting news, there’s always a plethora of dope music that drops. Sometimes it’s out of nowhere, and sometimes it is promoted and released right when we expect it. As rap heads, we are a...

It was a busy day at Warner Bros. headquarters in Burbank, Calif. yesterday as all nine members of hip-hop’s legendary collective, the Wu-Tang Clan, came through to announce they’ve signed a deal with entertainment’s other most famous W to release their forthcoming album A Better Tomorrow. While the full a...

Despite Wiz Khalifa being clothes-lined by a bevy of allegations regarding his divorce, this hasn't deterred him from showing love to his fans. After headlining his "Under the Influence Tour" this past summer, Wiz is still hungry for more...

Diddy doesn’t seem too phased by reports that his channel Revolt TV is experiencing poor viewership. Earlier this week his network announced it inked a new multiplatform deal with Verizon FiOS. Huffington Post reports that this new partnership will add the 24-hour music channel to the cable service provider’s FiOS TV Ultimate HD package on Channel 726 HD and launching on Verizon's FiOS Mobile App

In which the Kush God does a bit of blaxploitation. Smoke DZA and his RFC brothers, Al-Doe and NymLo, connect for a groovier addition to the A3C soundtrack. On "Leana Horns," the trio sounds as comfortable in front of booming horns as it is on more modern instrumentals...

After revealing that her forthcoming EP Beauty And The Beast would drop in October last month Rapsody has taken to Instagram again to announce its official tracklist. The “I’m A Beast” rapper’s new project is a follow-up to 2013’s She Got Game. Producers include boasts pro...

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the August/September 2014 issue of XXL Magazine. Things haven't been easy for Waka Flocka Flame in the last few years. The Bricksquad Monopoly chief lost two younger brothers and has been dealing with their deaths both privately and publicly on Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta. Recently, XXL...

I think I was meant to be the member of a hip-hop crew. See, I’m a team player, I pick sides, I’m ride or die, and I’ll take on my buddy’s beef, holding grudges until the end of time. Those were some of the qualities I always loved about G-g-g-g-g-g-G-Unit. So when they broke up,...

When Bryan "Birdman" Williams has a vision, the probability of that vision becoming both extremely lucrative and devotedly embraced by the masses, is as sure of a thing as the magnitude of his own net worth. Within the revolving door of prosperous artists that is YMCMB, the chief visionary recently brought forth the design for a definite super group, to act as the emerging face of the lo

Yesterday, during an interview with on the Late Show with David Letterman, Andre 3000 spoke about his role on the newly released Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side, where he plays the rock legend Jimi Hendrix himself. During the interview, Andre admits that there were points during the shooting of the movie where he thought that he may have taken on "more than could handle" by