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As today marks the untimely death of world icon Nelson Mandela, the hip-hop community wanted to bid the noble leader an appropriate farewell. Celebrating the life of the African statesmen who led South Africa out of decades of apartheid, the world may never again witness a fighter with a strength quite like Mandela's...

Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes revealed the official artwork for their upcoming mixtape The Abstract & The Dragon earlier this week. Today, Sway on MTV RapFix Live talked to Busta via Skype to discussed the meaning behind the unique artwork. Bu...

This has been a heck of a year for Eminem and to top it all off, the rapper is now featured in the commercial for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Using "Bezerk" as the advertisement's audio, it's ironic that due to the cut off date, Eminem is not be eligible for nominations at this year's ceremony...

Jay Z agrees: Reasonable Doubt is a classic. In celebrating Hov’s debut album and his 44th birthday yesterday, BK spitter Skyzoo and Philly’s own Antman Wonder decided to recreate nine songs from the iconic debut. While Sky reinterprets Jay’s lyrics with his own emotions, Antman Wonder builds these instrumentals from the ground up with live string sections, horns and more. Stream An Ode... Read M

Shot in Brazil, Talib Kweli runs around in "Favela Love" with Brazilian superstar Seu Jorge. As the two fall in love overnight, things take a turn when Talib's new beauty goes missing. "Favela Love" is off of Talib’s Prisoner Of Conscious album....

Young Buck is serious about getting back to releasing new music. At the same time, Lil Scrappy has been behind the scenes working on his Reparations project, which hits stores Spring 2014. The first single is “They Hate Me,” where the two MCs throw barbs at the naysayers over a bombastic beat. Check it o...

Superproducer Dr. Dre is set to take Beats Electronics a step further with the introduction of Beats Music. The company founded alongside Jimmy Iovine plans to join the online music streaming market with their launch of the new service in January...

Kanye West visited The Rickey Smiley Morning Show and touched on multiple topics. A interesting part of the interview was Kanye expressing his love for Kim Kardashian. Yeezy answers why Kim Kardashian is perfect for him, stating "She just is. She...

Lil Kim is always making moves. The 39-year-old rapstress appeared alongside her new artist Tiffany Foxx to body their cypher performance at this year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards. Then, Kimmy Blanco made history at Power 105.1’s Powerhouse 2013 when Kendrick Lamar brought her out and unified the king and queen of New York hip-hop. She’s also...

XXL is giving away a goodie bag filled with items from TRUKFIT's Holiday 3 Collection TRUKFIT launched in December 2012 at Agenda Long Beach and has grown exponentially; it is currently sold at Macy's, Dillard's, Zumiez, Tillys, Karmaloop and hundreds of other stores across the nation as well as TRUKFIT.com. It i...

Looks like Chance The Rapper is featured on not one but two songs in Justin Bieber's #MusicMondays. Teasing the release of "Confident" this Monday at Midnight, both Chance and JB seem to be pretty excited about the new joint. “@chancetherapper we are next,” JB tweeted, with Chance responding, “it’s so damn good.” Justin also recen...

Performing for the first time in London, Chance The Rapper got quite a welcoming response. Putting on a sold-out show, the rapper shared a real moment with the audience sharing tales about his humble beginnings. Check it out!