Kanye West has reportedly hired plenty of help for his untitled follow-up to 808s & Heartbreak. Everyone from Q-Tip to DJ Premier to Pete Rock ...

Few things excite me nowadays. The smell of newly purchased, unworn sneakers. The first bite into a meal I’d been anxiously waiting on since I ...

Yesterday (June 8), it was revealed that A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Dogg, and DJ Premier would be added to this summer’s Rock the Bells ...

Photography by Angela Boatwright Sad news came to hip-hop on the morning of April 19, when Keith “Guru” Elam died after a yearlong struggle with multiple ...

The forthcoming interactive video game, Def Jam Rapstar, just got iller. Konami announced today (June ) that Just Blaze and DJ Premier have signed ...

Following his free performance at Red Hook Park this past Tuesday (June 1), Jay Electronica took a few minutes to speak with XXLMag.com about what ...

I’m proud to be from New York, I truly believe there is no greater city in the world. And when it comes to NY hip-hop, ...

Last night (April 29) some of the most critically acclaimed acts from New York’s 1990's rap scene gathered at Warsaw in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to take ...

There’s really nothing hip-hop about ABC’s Lost, one of my obsessions since the first episode premiere back in September 2004. The show had me at ...