A couple weeks ago BET premiered My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women in Hip-Hop. I had heard about the show coming on but ...

The Duck Down Records roster will be hitting the road next month for a 14-city tour sponsored by XXL Magazine. Featuring sets by Pharoahe Monch, Buckshot, ...

Joe Berkowitz, the fudge from the Awl who tried to conflate hip-hop with Hitler, must have a Google Alert for his name, in case anyone ...

A sign of the times: I was gonna do a trend piece on broke rappers begging for money, but then it occurred to me that ...

The New York Times has this policy where you have to have at least three hardly related observations in order to declare something a trend. ...

With Wale's new mixtape Back To The Feature set for release tomorrow (June 19), XXLMag.com chopped it up with the DC MC about the delay, as well as ...

A few months back, a few coworkers and I spoke to a group of aspiring bright young journalists from Howard University, and one of them ...

It’s 2009, finally! All this preparing and waiting and the shut down of the industry has killed me. It’s January 5, 2009, we are back ...

It’s no secret that female MCs are a dying breed, but Jean Grae refuses to go quietly. Miss rap supreme steps up to provide fans ...