This year’s Rock the Bells lineup has just been announced, and the roster is looking stacked. Headlining the annual hip-hop festival will be Ms. Lauryn Hill, ...

The line up for the annual Paid Dues Festival has been announced, and Black Star, E-40 and Murs, and Slaughterhouse will headline the three stages ...

Yesterday (December 8), Talib Kweli came up to the XXLMag.com office for our weekly UStream show, Spotlight. During the conversation, Kweli talked about his upcoming ...

  I peeped Mos Def’s video for “History” yesterday—one of the standout tracks from The Ecstatic—and among the iconic images included in the clip was one ...

Writing about Cash Money Records yesterday and thinking about Def Jam and their silver anniversary got me reminiscing about another storied hip-hop label, Rawkus Records. Starting ...

Photography Matt SalacuseReadying the fourth album of his enigmatic career, reclusive rapper-cum-actor Mos Def has things to say that people need to hear. But you gotta ...

The 8th light shone bright as a reunited Black Star took to the stage for two shows Saturday night (May 30) in Times Square. Mos and ...

Talib Kweli will perform alongside Hi-Tek as a reunited Reflection Eternal at this year’s Rock The Bells festival, but the Brooklyn emcee caught up with ...

First Kweli reunited with Hi-Tek for a new Reflection Eternal album, and now it has been announced that he will be performing a string of ...