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After more than one year of dodging the press, Chris Brown breaks his silence. Words: Chris Brown Images: Juco Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the December/January 2013 issue of XXL Magazine. Since this is my first cover in a minute, I’ll explain why I wasn’t doing interviews. I’ve been adaman...

In the market for a new house? Well you're in luck. Kanye and Kim have listed their unfinished, Bel-Air Crest mansion—that they spent over a year renovating—on the market for a cool $11 million. They originally bought the mansion in January 2013, and according to Forbes, they “proceeded to strip down, remove entire walls, push it out further to the backyard, change the plans, change them again,

Kanye must have caught wind of Lorde doing her rendition of "Flashing Lights" because Ye is reportedly getting to work with the New Zealand singer. According to NY Post's sources, as soon as Ye wrapped up his tour in Australia and landed in Los Angeles with plans on recording with the "Royals" Singer. Lorde cites K ...

Disclosure's "Latch" featuring Sam Smith is something of a modern classic. The club jam is at the downslope of its popularity, but like ScHoolboy Q's own "Studio," it's prone to a remix like every other song that's a DJ essential. ScHoolboy Q tries to fit within the EDM euphoria in his remix to latch...

Even though Weezy continues to go hard on the road for Drake vs Lil Wayne nationwide tour, he still manages to find time to put out installments of his weekly viral series, Weezy Wednesday. In this latest installment, Young Carter gives us a sneak peek of the long-awaited video for his banger with Drake, “Grindin”, his second single off of Tha Carter V. The full v ...

Your weekly soulful Christmas is here once again. Raekwon's latest sample source is Stevie Wonder for his 1966 hit, "Hey Love." This one follows the same format as his last release: A couple of fluidly delivered bars before letting the original tune ride it out...

We finally have the news you've been waiting for on Dr. Dre's long-awaited album Detox! The news is that the album isn't going to be called Detox. Yes, we know, anti-climactic. The information was dropped in an MTV interview with Aftermath producer Dawaun Parker...

Chappelle brought the whole neighborhood out!

Fredo Santana may have grown tired of the rap game as he announced via Twitter that his next project, Ain't No Money Like Trap Money Vol.1, may be the last we hear Fredo on wax for a few years. Santana says that he wants to focus more on acting following the Halloween drop of his next project. Ai...

Joe Moses' new video is an ode to loyalty and ballin' out — two favored 'hood pastimes. "They Don't Know Me" has a lot of autotune, so Moses' nighttime activities come off as majestic somehow. It's a bit of a stretch, given how a majority of the Roger Bayyan-directed video features regular activities like rapping in a car (a high-end car, of course) and dapping up the homies. "... R

Today, Sept. 18, marks the birthday of legendary West Coast rapper, Xzibit!

Key!, one of the former founding members of Atlanta's Two-9 collective, has been branching out and doing his solo thing lately. Most recently, Key! released an EP entitled Give Em Hell along with fellow up and coming Atlanta rapper OG Maco in July, and now Key...