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After a night of laughs on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday (May 7), Pharrell swung back by the show again for a second night to hit its AT&T outdoor stage. With the help of dancers and a live band the singer-producer performed the Daft Punk song he helped make a hit “Get Lucky,” and “Hunter” off his recent solo album GIRL. Watch performance below: ...

Mother's Day is just around the corner and Eminem has something lined up for all you lovely nurturers. He announced on his Instagram that he will be releasing his Spike Lee directed video entitled "Headlights" on Mother's Day (May 11th) The song was on Eminem's last album The Marshall Mathers LP 2...

Who said school wasn't cool? Despite dropping out of high school, LL Cool J made an grand entrance at Northeastern University to not only celebrate his daughter's receiving her honors degree, but also his own. "I've been called a few things but never doctor...

Don't let T.I's Bill Cosby like persona on VH1's Family Hustle fool you. If necessary, T.I will handle his business on the streets without any questions asked. TMZ reported that The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Apollo Nida, was pressed by T...

Off the strength of Cognitive Dissonance: Part One released in March, 300's newest product drops the official video for "8 Rangs," which XXL is premiering today. Directed by Raz and Stephan Gray, the visuals find the Seattle rapper slanging product to make ends meet...

The-Dream has found himself in hot water due to an alleged assault against his baby mother, Lydia Nam. The talented musician has denied all allegations, but his situation has gone from bad to worse now that TMZ has obtained pictures of Nam that were supposedly taken right after the alleged assault. ...

Rich Eisen dropped a bomb right before the NFL Draft 2014 announcing that draftees can pick out their walk-up music when they get selected. For the first time ever, draftees have chosen the music that plays over speakers as they walk to the stage in Radio City Music Hall...

Update 1:34 pm In an interesting twist of events, Rick Ross posted an Instagram photo of him beside Suge Knight from last week. As the two appeared to be quite friendly in the pic, Rozay captioned the photo "Ran into Suge Last week and he showed Alot of Luv...

Accomplished musician and author Questlove of The Roots is adding another job to his already impressive resume, as he is reportedly joining VH1's new series Soundclash as an Executive Producer. While VH1's main focus has been on reality television as of late, they do have a history of great music programming with series' like I Love The 80s, Behind The Music, and most recently, The Tanning of Amer

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Nipsey Hu$$le's long-awaited debut album is finally on the horizon, and the L.A. rapper is hard at work making the project live up to the lofty standards he's set for himself. The album, Victory Lap, has been in the works for a minute now, and Nipsey filled in XXL this week on some of the progress he's been making, and how things have been shaping up. "Man,...

Lil Durk has changed his mind. Contrary to what he told a Chicago radio station earlier this week, Durk will not be serving up a response track to Tyga and Game's "Chiraq To LA" diss, at least for now. XXL spoke with Lil Durk's management to confirm the record and it seems that the camp has had a change of heart as the beef has grown and evolved from the initial differences between Durk