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50 Cent bought his son a miniature Mercedes Benz for his second birthday. The G-Unit head honcho got his son Sire with a little black Mercedes-Benz convertible and shared pics of the present. No Big 50 and little 50 have matching cars...

P. Reign releases his new mixtape Dear America a week before he drops his EP next Tuesday. Guests include Drake, Future, Waka, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky and more. Stream and download below.—Marvin Jules P Reign - Dear America

Update (Sept. 4 1:22 p.m.): G-Unit's The Beast Is G-Unit EP will be released in Oct. They made the announcement when they chopped it up with Hot 97. ---- Original Story: Last Sunday, to everyone's surprise, G-Unit released their first project in 7 years when they dropped their The Beauty of Independence EP, and pretty much everyone thought it was hot. The 6 tr...

Update (Sept 3 6:34 p.m.): A representative of Bobby Shmurda has contacted XXL to clarify this situation. The beat that was sent to Shmurda was sent months ago to Lil Bibby for Free Crack 2 and there is absolutely no beef/war between Shmurda's team and the current XXL Freshman. Shmurda didn't ...

The feud between on-again-off-again friends Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent has escalated immensely in the past few weeks. After 50 challenged the undefeated boxer to read a full page from a Harry Potter book for $750,000, the noise from Mayweather's camp remained somewhat faint. Acc...

The hip hop community has remained anything but silent when it comes to the story of Mike Brown and the slew of unjust killings that took place in the past month. Newly independent artist, Trinidad James, has just released a track titled "Mr...

1017 Brick Squad artist Peewee Longway was arrested Sunday (Aug. 31) for illegal possession of a controlled substance and first degree possession of marijuana. The "Came In" rapper was expected to perform at The Luxe Bar & Grill, also known as Club Luxe, in Montgomery, AL. bu...

Lil Bibby has been hard at work since gracing our 2014 XXL Freshmen cover in March. Bibby landed two guest spots on Kid Ink’s “Main Chick (Remix)” as well as Juicy J’s new single “Low” featuring Nicki Minaj and Young Thug. The Chicago rapper has even perfor...

According to organizers from the Listen Out 2014 music festival, YG has cancelled all of his Australian tour dates which means he will not be attending this year's Listen Out. The Compton rapper was expected to hit the stage alongside Schoolboy Q and popular Australian acts like Flume and Chet Faker...

Last night, buzzing Atlanta rapper/singer iLoveMakonnen gave several hints that he might've signed to Drake's OVO Sound. According to Miss Info, the 25-year-old LA native, who resides in Atlanta, officially made his hit "Club Going Up On A Tuesday" (shorten to just "Tuesday") available for purchase on iTunes...

Killa Cam is back with the third installment of his 1st Of The Month series. This time, Cam'ron called on former Dipset member Hell Rell, British singer Estelle, Rod Rhapsy and long-time girlfriend JuJu to complete the EP. 1. Dumb B*tch 2. Dev...

Seems like things are going great between Jay Z and Beyonce. After sharing a picturesque moment at the VMAs last weekend the power couple was spotted looking very much in love in Los Angeles Sunday at Made In America. This comes days after Queen B’s father Matthew Knowles announced that his youngest daughter’s fight with Jay Z was purely a publicity stunt to boost ticket sales for the On The Run T