XXL Mag

When Rick Ross' car was riddled with 18 bullets in a drive-by shooting last January, it affected the rapper more than he let on at the time. And that brush with death—which caused Ross to veer off the road and collide with an apartment building, luckily leaving no one injured—informs Ross' sixth album, Mastermind, more than most might have thought; the lushly produced project dwells early and ofte

The 2014 Forecastle Festival invades  Louisville, KY from July 18-20. The hip-hop acts are few but are pretty huge. OutKast is one of the headlining acts and Action Bronson will be taking the stage as well. You can find ticket info here.  ...

2 Chainz drops off the visual for "Mainstream Ratchet." Showing love for all the ratchet chicks in the clip, the rapper speaks of the pleasures of a free spirited female without a care in the world. "Mainstream Ratchet" is off of 2 Chainz' latest album B...

N.O.R.E. teams up with the Good Belt Gang for his new "Into That" video. Speaking of life on the streets and showing off a hustler's mentality in the clip, the boys speak of enjoying in the midst of it all and the troubles that pop up along the way...

Future talks to Tim Westwood about his upcoming album Honest, preparing for a baby with Ciara, being a business man, his hustle mentality and more, including why he's been spending all his time in one particular studio located in London...

The Legends Cup, formerly known as the Lingerie Bowl, is coming back for another season and you should be watch. These women really play hard and are pretty hot in sexy lingerie.

Smoke DZA is hard at work getting ready to liberate his upcoming LP titled Dream.ZONE.Achieve, scheduled to be released on Apr. 1. His leading single “Herases,” featuring TDE’s Ab-Soul, dropped on Monday (Mar. 3). Today, DZA gives XXL the green light to unveil both the album's cover and tracklist. Peep the rundown...

In an interview with Rap-Up, were August Alsina is promoting his album debut, the New Orleans crooner touches on a current beef he has with Trey Songz. The R&B fellas, who collaborated on the remix to August’s smash hit “I Luv This Sh*t,” had a recent falling out. “I don’t really f...

Iggy Azalea takes it back to the 90's in her new video, reviving the classic film Clueless in "Fancy." As Iggy takes on the role of Cher, the Hustle Gang rapstress pulls out her finest threads and rules the school in her Charli XCX featured visual...

Save Money’s Caleb James is readying the release of his new mixtape, The Jones 2.0, which is set to come out this spring. His second single is “Honesty and Loyalty.” He and his father Steve Stone Huff, who has worked with the likes of The Isley Brothers, produced the track. Here, Caleb’s...

Deniro Farrar has come a long way from Charlotte, N.C. The rapper signed a record deal with Vice Records/Warner Bros. Records last October, and since then he's gone a bit quiet, taking his independent movement back underground and keeping his cards close to his chest...

Big K.R.I.T. launched the “Week of K.R.I.T,” which is his new campaign that will see him releasing a track everyday. After delivering a major collaboration with Rick Ross on “New Agenda,” Krizzle is back with a slick freestyle called “Conscious Effort.” Over Hi-Tek’s “Letter To Th...