As we roll out our annual Top Ten Freshman List for 2013, XXL decided to take a look back 20 years to weigh in on who would ...

On this day, March 21st, in hip-hop history... 1966: DJ Premier celebrates his 47th birthday today. Born in Houston, TX, Premier is widely considered one of ...

Brooklyn and Long Beach connect in the latest  episode of Snoop Dogg's "Double G News." New York veteran Talib Kweli recently stopped by Uncle Snoop's DGN ...

XXL lists the best songs in which MCs personified hip-hop, guns, drugs and more...

“Yo, let me see that?” DJ Premier asks. He was just talking about the changes he made to the old D&D Studios—now rechristened HeadQcourtez Studios ...

Everyone has different ways that they listen to music. Some are only occasional listeners, maybe at the club or at the bar, when they’re ready ...

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 ...

Last night’s Freshmen ’10 Live Show was a success to say the least. Everybody did their thing. New York’s own, Cam’ron, came through and repped ...