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After receiving some shine for being featured on The Break, KR continues to give us more reasons to believe in his talent. The young rapper puts on for LA in his new video, "Westside(Ayy Yayy)," directed by Dan Gotti. With a unorthodox delivery that would make Chance the Rapper blush, the 19-year-old spitter seamlessly rides the beat, all while providing some dope kickflips on his skateb

Black Scale is one of the most elite streetwear brands of today's era, the clothing company has teamed up with the legendary Motown Records to create a special capsule collection. The first run of the collection will include tees, zipped-up hoodies, pullover fleeces and an array of headwear...

DMV rapper Yung Gleesh is back with his latest mixtape, Cleansides Finest 3. The 18-track project features the likes of Peewee Longway and MPA Shitro, and is the follow-up to Gleesh's 2013 release, Your Favorite Rapper’s Favorite Rapper. Y...

Before things took an unexpected turn last night at the Testimony Live Tour, August Alsina sat down to chat with XXL before hitting the stage at Irving Plaza in NYC. Speaking on his recent collaboration with Nicki Minaj as well as his sophmore album, August held nothing back when it came to his recent endeavors...

Eric Bellinger and The Game have teamed up for another track, this time for Bellinger's upcoming mixtape Choose Up Season. On "Awkward," the singer/ songwriter explores the uncomfortable feelings experienced after a break-up. This song is one of nine tracks featured on his mixtape set to drop Oct...

With Atlanta in the backdrop Rich Homie Quan and Metro Boomin stint for the camera in "Too Short" video. The song is a cut off Boomin's upcoming project, 20 & Boomin, which he is gearing up to drop sometime soon. Metro has been a busy man, contributed to a number of records and projects and still looks to hopefully drop Metro Thuggin soon...

As divorce rumors between Jay Z and Beyonce are in full swing, it seems that the couple is doing everything in their power to disprove the recent allegations. From Beyonce appearing pregnant to the couple showing extreme PDA while on The On The Run tour, check out these 11 photos that prove Jay Z and Beyonce are not getting a divorce...

Jeremih's "Don't Tell 'Em" has been steadily climbing the charts. Today, the R&B crooner switches things up a bit by removing YG and adding Ty Dolla $ign and French Montana to the official remix. French offers up a pretty strong New York verse, throwing references to indie label Duck Down, Bobby Brown and more entertaining lines...

The Weeknd is currently on his "King of the Fall" tour, and has partnered with clothing brand BBC, to create two limited collaboration items. The capsule collection will include a black zip-up hoodie that features the 'KOTF' abbreviation in the left chest area of the hoodie along with the classic BBC astronaut logo...

After several pushbacks since its initial announcement in July 2013, Lil Kim is back with her third mixtape, Hard Core 2k14. Sharing the same title as her unapologetic debut album and with both intros similar in concept, it’s hard not to make comparisons as this mixtape plays like a direct sequel. Whil...

Instead of sampling Ye I got him in the same room and we created for a year! My fav monment was arranging the whole album on his JET. #Fly — Theophilus London (@TheophilusL) September 16, 2014 Theophilus London is living the high life right now and with his album Vibes due out on October 28, London stunted hard by claiming that he worked on his album while flying with Kanye on Ye's private jet.

The man who made classic hits such as "Love," "Don'tchange," “Just Friends” and "Halfcrazy" is trying to become a rapper. Musiq Soulchild aka The Husel released a self-titled mixtape that will make fans scratch their head and ponder what is going through the R&B singer's mind. It's very Future-li...