XXL Mag

Music curator, Songza is the latest company to be acquired by Google. The app that provides music based on genre, mood, activities, time of day and weather was purchased for an undisclosed amount after weeks of speculation for a substantially higher amount than the $15 million figure quoted by the New York Post earlier in June...

Tonight 50 Cent will showcase his second annual birthday boxing bash on ESPN. The event will feature fighters Michael Farenas against Mark Davis and Billy Dib against Alberto Garza. 50 Cent first revealed the news in an interview on ESPN's First Take. He later...

Another festival means another place for you guys to turn up. For it's third annual festival, Trillectro enlisted some heavy hitters for their line-up. The DC festival is set to feature the likes of Big Sean, Migos, SZA, Goldlink and Fat Trel. The...

The untimely death of Tupac Shakur continues to be a mystery, even after nearly 20 years. Tupac Shakur is the one rapper who has seemed to have a long lasting career and impact on culture even nearly 20 years after his death. It might have to do with the fact that there are rumors that he’s not actually dead or the fact that his untimely murder still remains a mystery. N...

Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s new girlfriend bad Medina is gorgeous. Just check out her Instagram after you look through the gallery above. Happy Hump day!

Rah Digga has been quiet this year after dropping a series of loosies throughout 2013. The Newark MC finally broke her silence though; she lays down a couple of bars on "Bish Whaaa." Rah Digga rolls over the booming, soul-sampling horns to show why she was considered one of the top female MCs...

Dillon Cooper is another artist with a project coming up soon. "T.D.K. (The Dark Knight)" is a cut off the mixtape, which is going to be a piece of youthful rambunctiousness and New York City grime if that track is any indicator. The Brooklyn rhymer displays the Batman-like technical agility and Joker-like aggression on the track, punctuating punchlines and switching to double-time whene

Andre Harrell has shifted over to Revolt TV.  Just named their Vice Chairman, according to Billboard, the former Bad Boy and Motown Exec will now be responsible for "creating opportunities for the music-oriented network with technology companies, brands and the music industry." ...

We’re officially at halftime of 2014. This year, we’ve seen a lot of rap songs pop off and dominate the radio and our playlists. Most of them come from albums and mixtapes, but there have been a few Internet-only singles that have created a lot of noise. Last year ...

Tupac is a once and a lifetime type of artist. His music painfully paints the atrocities and hypocrisy of surviving in America as a Black man from the inner city. Shakur’s raw, powerful music is timeless. So it’s an ambitious project to take some of his greatest and most influential songs and make them the catalyst for a Broadway play. Holler If ...

Nicki Minaj seems to be singing Iggy Azalea praises after supposedly bashing the Austrian rapper during her acceptance speech at the 2014 BET Awards. The “Pills  N Potions” rapper is now clarifying that despite the gestures she may have displayed speculating that Azalea did not write her own rhymes she wasn't throwing “no shade.” Since the event M...