XXL Mag

The biggest new MC in the game doesn't even call himself a rapper. He's a trapper, he'll tell you, just one with a way with words. Complicated, controversial and committed to the cold, hard truth, Young Jeezy, a.k.a. Da Snowman, says he's trying to bring hope to the streets...

XXL is giving away two tickets to Flatbush Zombies & Bodega Bamz Show at Irving Plaza in New York City on Dec. 3. Brooklyn's Flatbush Zombies are hitting the road in support of their latest and much awaited mixtape release, Better Off Dead. The North Am...

Ladies, want to know how you can impress Kevin Gates? He tells you how below. A good woman is going to be seen and not heard. And we going to communicate with our eyes. You going to look and I’m going to look and I might give you a smirk and you might smirk back. And ...

Can you come up with a funny quote? Place your caption in the “Comments” section below. The best caption will be announced today at 4 p.m. Happy captioning!

Behind a wall of graffiti, Don Trip and Starlito bring their hardened rhymes in the new visuals in support of their new collaborative album Step Brothers 2. “28th Song” is the next single that follows “Paper, Rock, Scissors” and the revealing “Leash On Life” with Kevin Gates. Previously: Starlito And Don Tr...

When news broke that Spike Lee will remake Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 film, Oldboy, the pressure was on. Well, Lee delivers a knockout with his reinterpretation of the cult classic. Lee's version is a grisly, blood-filled thriller of revenge and regret that ditches some details and reshapes some components from the original, while keeping intact the essential framework of the dark road-

Trinidad Jame$ isn’t getting away that easy. After the former XXL Freshmen stated his opinion about Atlanta running New York music, the birthplace of hip-hop hasn’t been too friendly to him. He’s already said he won’t apologize for his comment, so everyone from Maino to N.O.R.E. has defended the...

E-40 is closing in on his release date for The Block Brochure: 4, 5, & 6, due out on December 10. Just in time for the holiday break, the good folks at Young California decide to give away “Chitty Bang” featuring Juicy J and Ty Dolla $ign. The leaders of...

Produced by Big Jerm and P. Fish, Larry Fisherman a.k.a. Mac Miller drops a smooth offering called “I Come In Peace.” Just vibe to this.

Jeezy’s back with the product. On Thanksgiving Day, hip-hop’s trapper releases Its Tha World 2 featuring new music from his CTE gang. Many of these songs—“Foul Play,” “Birfday” and “Benihana”—hit the Internet weeks prior. However, Jeezy does give us some cuts such as “In My Head”...

With the holiday right around the corner, XXL thought it appropriate to celebrate family. Gathering together a bunch of rappers spending time with their loved ones, XXL presents "Rappers Who Are Secretly Family Guys."

Back in October, Cali MC Casey Veggies hinted that he and MMG rapper Rockie Fresh were going to drop a project together. Today we get the first taste of it with the song "Sacrifice," which will serve as the first single from it. Veggies also unveiled the project's artwork via his Twitter, which shows that the mixtape will be presented by Puma...