Desperado Entertainment filed a lawsuit yesterday (June 22) against Aftermath Records, Interscope, Universal Music Group and ARY, Inc., a company run by Dr. Dre, ...

Last Friday, “We Do It B.I.G.,” a Game and Yung Joc track featuring a sample from a line Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” for the hook, premiered ...

Last September, Snoop Dogg was named Creative Chairman of the EMI-owned Priority Records, and now, as part of a celebration of the label’s 25th anniversary, ...

Originally published in the October 2002 issue of XXL In 1993 Tupac Shakur was at a firing range in Los Angeles filming a video interview for ...

“If Malcolm X had died at 25 he would have been known as a petty-hustler and thief. If Martin Luther King had died at 25 ...

Last week Nipsey Hussle flew down to Miami to shoot a video for "Rap Music," a soulful standout from his 2009 mixtape Bullets Ain’t ...

BET announced today (June 4) that T.I. will join the performance line-up for their 2010 BET Awards Show which will be broadcast live from Los ...

Now that the real “Freeway” Rick Ross, is out of jail he’s ready to reclaim the rights to his name. The infamous L.A.-based drug trafficker is ...

Suge Knight can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. TMZ reports that the former Death Row Records honcho is back in the hot seat ...