WORDS BEN DETRICK **THIS STORY ORIGINALLY APPEARS IN THE MAY 2011 ISSUE OF XXL ON SALE NOW** Last summer, when Kanye West was in the throes of ...

War, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely . . . new music from Pharoahe Monch. The complex rhyme spitter released his third solo ...

Rappers are hardly ever able to recapture their prime's lyrical genius. Case in point: Canibus. In his heyday, the Queens MC buried many of his ...

Charlie Sheen is on fire. For those playing catch up, the actor has been making headlines recently thanks to some of the things he’s been ...

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More than a decade before Drake took hip-hop by storm in 2009, even before 50 Cent strongarmed the hip-hop game back in 2002, Canibus was ...

The first Monday in September is a time to reflect on the strength of American labor, but for most folks Labor Day symbolizes the end ...

"Realness" is overrated. It's a statement that hip-hop as a community should've been saying a long time ago. Rick Ross got busted. So? He wasn't ...

Class is in session. Some of you rap heads might not know, but today (Aug. 20) the legendary KRS-One celebrates his 45th birthday. In honor ...