I have this one friend who’s as unapologetic as hip-hop fans come, the kind of listener who’ll decimate a song upon first spin and ignore ...

This is Dap, slave name Ashok Kondabolu, hypeman extraordinaire for Das Racist. I'm going to be doing a track-by-track breakdown and review of our mixtape, ...

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Def Jam is known for ushering in a slew of iconic rap acts to the game: LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, ...

A wise man once said, don’t judge a book by its cover. That may be a fitting assessment for the written word, but when it ...

Ever since word broke that Method Man, Ghostface and Raekown were joining forces for a collaborative album, diehard fans have been eagerly awaiting the project's ...

Back in the days when I was just freelancing for XXL, I interviewed stic.man, one half of dead prez, about his book The Art of ...

A strange thing happened the other day. One of my fellow XXL minions asked me if I had “C.R.E.A.M.” in my iTunes play list. I ...

The votes are in. After giving a year-by-year rundown of every single XXL cover of the past 10 years and allowing fans to vote for ...