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It aint hard to tell. Cali cohorts Kid Ink and Casey Veggies get together for the video for Ink's new track, "I Know Who You Are." The duo posts up in front of Casey's Pea's and Carrots clothing store in Fairfax for the backdrop. Soundz on the track...

DJ Khaled stopped by The NiteCap with Peter Bailey to share the inside scoop on his upcoming album Suffering From Success and drops the bomb that President Barack Obama will be on the album. From We The Best Studios, the two discuss Miami music scene, past and present, his rise to fame, his role in making music, and many more...

Grammy award winning artist and producer Pharrell Williams has partnered with french fashion house Moncler to produce a very detailed and in-depth Fall/Winter 13 collection.  The collection features a series of Monclers signature down jacket, sunglasses along with a new edition "bullet-proof" styled vest. Thi...

Brand Jordan continues to set the sneaker culture a blaze with these Air Jordan 5 Retro "Bel Air". The sneaker pays tribute to the 90's sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". This colorway features a grey leather upper with a purple, ice blue and neon green sole bottom, this is a non-OG colorway...

Kanye West is not done. He’s taken to Twitter once more to voice his opinion, explaining that he isn't the only one who thinks the aired spoof featuring two child actors in the roles of West and Lowe during their  BBC Radio 1 interview was offensive. XXL has compil...

Kanye West had another in his latest string of run-ins with the paparazzi last night. Around 4 A.M. PT this morning, photographers caught Kanye outside of his home's garage door where Kanye got into argument with the cameraman about his personal privacy...

As we wind down a month-long look back over the last 150 issues of XXL and the biggest hip-hop events during that time, some of our friends and supporters hit us up with some-outs that we're sharing in this video. We'd like to thank our readers, fans, haters, staff, rappers, managers, producers, labels, executives, PR people and everyone else for the last 150 issues and in the words of Snoop, &quo

On Jimmy Kimmel Live two nights ago, Kimmel enlisted a child to read the transcript of Kanye’s four-part interview with BBC Radio 1 host Zane Lowe, which you can see above. Kanye didn’t think it was funny at all, unleashing a rant that turned Twitter upside down last night. Kimmel res...

Raekwon is the next MC to add his remix to Boi-1da’s popular instrumental from Drake’s Nothing Was The Same. “Pound Cake” a.k.a. “Marble Cake” finds Rae floating over the atmospheric production, firing off rhymes about being a don and living life with endless riches. Give it a listen below. ...

It all started innocently enough. On Monday afternoon (September 23), BBC Radio 1 posted the first installment of British radio DJ Zane Lowe's four-part interview with rapper Kanye West on the web. The interview featured Kanye being candid about a variety of subjects regarding his music and his life, expressed in a manner that was colorful and lively. The ...

Chang Weisberg, the Rock The Bells founder and owner of the festival's production company Guerilla Union, spoke yesterday to Radio.com about the festival's cancellation in both Washington, D.C. and New York. The company released an official statement yesterday saying that the cancellations had to do with poor ticket sales, with a source telling XXL that the company stood to take a $3 million hit.