**THIS STORY APPEARS IN ITS ENTIRETY IN THE APRIL 2012 ISSUE OF XXL. ON SALE NOW!** WORDS PAUL CANTOR (@paulcantor) When a then 17-year-old Deandre "Soulja Boy" ...

Lefabian “Fabo” Williams knows the importance of making a good first impression. As the colorful frontman of the rap outfit D4L, Fabo was the face ...

Record sales may be down, but the first 10 years of the millennium still produced some chart-topping releases. Earlier this week (Feb. 17), the Recording ...

As I mentioned earlier this week, the past 10 days or so have been like a hip-hop rapture. It’s as if some of these rapsters ...

Oh ringtone rap, where art thou? Seems as if just two years ago you were the reason why everyone in hip-hop was complaining. Now it's like ...

Reduced-time rapper/actor/weapon connoisseur Clifford "T.I.P." Harris has an entirely different type of Paper Trail for the peoples of Atlanta to follow. "Yeen't gotta leave yo' home ...

Look what the fuck you started, Jackpot. “I wanna smash her [Sarah ...

Fabo of Atlanta based group D4L was recently cleared on drug and weapons possession charges when the his co-defendant in the case decided to take ...

The debut solo project from D4L member Shawty Lo has apparently made its way onto the internet and into the hands of bootlegers ahead of ...