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Rock The Bells just released a statement regarding the cancellation of the final two weekends of its tour in Washington, D.C. and New York City. XXL reported earlier today that the dates would not be fulfilled, with a source indicating that the reasoning was due to poor ticket sales, and that parent company Guerilla Union would take a $3 million hit with the cancelled dates. Acc...

Danny! returns with some new music today. The South Carolina native drops a self-produced track titled “For The Money.” The track flips the classic Bone Thugs-n-Harmony hook over layers of bass, piano, chimes and more. It’s also brought together by Danny!’s expansive lyri...

Ask anybody who has asked a person of the opposite sex for a date... First impressions are important. In life, a limp first impression can permanently ruin your chances for success, hurt your career or inadvertently create enemies for life. It happe...

We all know how that it’s important how you start an album or mixtape, but how you finish it is equally vital to the success of any project. The final song, or “Outro” if you will, is the conclusion. It’s the last piece to the puzzle the artist has been building from the moment you pressed play. The way you walk away ...

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Chief Keef is ready for whatever in the new visual for the track "Ight Doe." Pistol flashing and weed smoking is on the Glory Boyz's agenda for the day in the A Zae Production shot video. This will appear on the Chicago rapper's upcoming project, Almighty So...

Rock The Bells, the traveling hip-hop festival celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, has already pulled off two successful shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco this summer. But according to local Washington, D.C. publications, as well as Ticketmaster's web site and XXL's own sources, the iterations in both the nation's capital and the New York City area have been cancelled. Rumors beg... R

"Don't think about it too much," sings Sampha on the crestfallen hook of "Too Much," one of the many highlights on Drake's Nothing Was The Same, and though it's a nice sentiment, it's not exactly easy to do when it comes to Drake. Few artists have inspired as much hand-wringing, head-scratching and face-palming as the ascendant Canadian rapper and XXL cover star...

Last night, Meek Mill made a guest appearance on Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 radio show. While the cameras were rolling the Philly rapper spit some bars sans an instrumental. Meek's long-awaited mixtape Dreamchasers 3 drops September 29. While you wait for it, check out our list of the MMG rapper's best mixtape tracks...

Big Sean once again shed light on the extremity of Detroit's deficit crisis, mentioning a friend who was once raped on the way to school due to police cuts; Sean urges that the city is in dire need of a solution. "When I was in high school, one of my best friends got rape walking to school", Big Sean said on The Wendy Williams Show...

Last week, the FBI released its Uniform Crime Report for 2012, showing that Chicago saw 500 homicides last year, more than any other city in the nation. While many have rushed to declare Chicago the new “murder capital” of America, it’s worth noting that such distinctions don’t take into account the size or population of an area—murder rates per capita is a more revealing statistic. As the Chicago

Fredo is no longer in the cut. Fredo Santana has been a busy man lately. He was just in the video for Drake's hit single off Nothing Was The Same, "Hold On, We're Going Home." He played a villain, of course, that was apart of a crime mob that kidnapped Drizzy's girlfriend. Now we g...