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It's Friday, so right before you leave your job and celebrate for the weekend. You might want to check out today's edition of Selfies Friday. Meet Ta'Nedra above.

Next week marks the moment everyone has been waiting for, when XXL will start rolling out our 2014 Freshmen Cyphers. It's one of the most anticipated parts of the Freshmen cover—outside of the list itself—and has made for some intriguing chemistry and fascinating collaborations over the years. But while you wait f...

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UPDATE: The cast of Bad Rap were on Hot 97 and chopped it up with Cipha Sounds and why this documentary is necessary. Watch above. ---- Asian-American rappers are a rare breed in hip-hop. In the early days, legends like Mountain Brothers, Jin and Lyrics Born were able to thrive and make successful careers out of themselves. Eve...

Jurassic 5 continues to surprise their fans. After making a return to the music scene with their new track, entitled, " The Way We Do It.", they will team up with Dilated Peoples to tour next month. After Dilated Peoples and Jurassic 5 complete their tours respectively, they will start hitting the stage together, starting July 9th, Seattle WA, at the Showbox, and ending August 3rd in Bos

This past month, we've rolled out the profiles, interviews, behind the scenes photos and freestyles from this year's XXL 2014 Freshmen Class, and yesterday we compiled all those freestyles into one place and ask you to vote on which Freshman came through with the best verse. The...

In case you didn't know, New York Knicks guard, Iman Shumpert enjoys flexing his lyrical muscle a bit. The young defensive guru who relishes in locking up your favorite shooting guard, also enjoys dropping some bars on occasion. After injecting his dose of swag on his remix of Migos' scintillating "Versace" record, he decided to jump on everybody's newest favorite instrumental, Nicki Min

Floyd Mayweather Jr. dropped $50,000 in Las Vegas last weekend to get Nicki Minaj to hang out at his daughter Iyanna’s 14th birthday bash. $50K just to take selfies, show face and maybe do a song on to is one hell of  day. It's only natural to idolize superstar rappers because the cool points you get when you say "Jay Z was at my birthday party, no big deal," is immeasurable. Nicki isn..

Ariana Grande calls on the assistance of Iggy Azalea in her new video "Prroblem." With plenty cameos from Big Sean and a 1960's theme, the visual is a must watch. "Problem" appears on Ariana Grande's sophomore LP due out this August.

Rihanna has turned the internet upside down with her latest magazine covers and photo shoots. The Bajan beauty is one of the most desirable artist in the world and hip-hop just can't seem to get enough of her. Here are a couple of occasion that proves hip-hop is obsessed with Rihanna...

Boldy James, who’s signed to Nas’ recently launched Mass Appeal imprint, is at it again with a new video for “I’m Him & We Them (Goose Egg)”— a cut off 2013’s Bout Dat Life mixtape from DJ Frank White, DGB and Trill HD. The video is as laidback as the production. Boldy James ...

This weekend, 50 Cent will take the stage at Hot 97's Summer Jam for the first time in a decade, after his infamous chair throwing incident left him banned for life from the station in 2004. He may be one of the most high-profile, but 50 is far from the only rapper who has been banned from a venue, an event, a radio station, a University, or even a nation, even if reports earlier this week that Ya