It’s that time of year again. The nominees for the 2010 BET Awards were announced today (May 18) in New York City and Jay-Z received ...

Everyone has a story. And thanks to MTV’s When I Was 17, hip-hop heads are invited to take a trip back down memory lane with ...

The NBA and hip-hop are no strangers to one another, but there have been moments when they’ve made strange bedfellows. With the new basketball flick ...

Admission time: I’m not a fan of one Aubrey Drake Graham. Never liked a song of his, never cared for any of his mixtapes. I ...

Now it’s no secret that I’ve been XXL’s resident Drake Stan—my co-workers have had to put up with it for some time now. I thoroughly ...

Photography shot exclusively for XXL by Jonathan Mannion Here, in an unpublished excerpt from Drake’s XXL cover story on stands now, rap’s next big thing talks ...

Before the Grammy nods and the multi-million dollar record contracts, Drake got his first taste of fame as Jimmy Brooks on the popular Canadian television ...

Not to let you in on more than you need to know about Jimmy Valentime, the New York MC who sorta kinda resembles the late ...

Drake, Gucci Mane and Nicki Minaj were among the names announced this afternoon, scheduled to hit the stage at this year's Hot 97 Summer Jam ...