There’s a gift and a curse that comes with what I do. On one hand, I largely get the chance to drop songs that I ...

*This story original appeared in the May 2005 issue of XXL Magazine* Compiled by: Paul W. Arnold, Paul Cantor, Jon Caramanica, Andrea Duncan, Toshitaka Kondo, Chairman ...

The Awl, a site run by some of the fruits who used to work for Gawker, runs a lot of suspect hip-hop journalism, usually of ...

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 ...

A week after the untimely passing of Guru, Jeru the Damaja and Group Home—two rap acts that belonged to his Gang Starr foundation—will be playing ...

It's been a dwindling week for hip-hop on The Billboard 200. Out of the four acts that made it onto the top 40, all but ...

The Billboard 200 got a visit from rap vets from both coasts this week, as new releases from Raekwon, Method Man and Ghostface, and E-40 ...

New York hip-hop was in full-effect last Friday at the Ghostface Klilah/Raekwon concert in at Manhattan’s Nokia Theatre. The Staten Island duo put on for ...

In an exclusive video for XXLMag.com, Raekwon the Chef shared information on his collaboration disc with Ghostface Killah and Method Man, tentatively titled Three, the ...