Hollywood is about to dance to a new hip-hop beat. The LA-based dance craze jerkin’, popularized by the New Boyz’s hit record “You’re a Jerk,” is ...

Five days after DJ AM was found dead in his Manhattan apartment, authorities investigating the case have revealed that the celebrity spinmaster was found with ...

Mack 10's never been one to take days off. First bursting onto the scene with his 1995 self-titled debut, the West Coast rapper released 10 ...

DJ AM, 36, the celebrity spinmaster who was born Adam Goldstein, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose yesterday afternoon (August 28) in his ...

Veteran West Coast rapper Too Short was arrested yesterday morning (August 27) in Las Vegas on DUI charges. TMZ reports that Short Dog was put in ...

JR vows to proceed and continue to rock the mic for the West Coast...

[Editor's note: For our 12th-anniversary celebration, XXL speaks with 12 artists who’ve come up, and blown up, with the magazine. 50 Cent, Baby, Shyne, Dame ...

FASHAWN Boy Meets World (One Records) At a time when the game is dominated by 30-something rappers, we sometimes forget that hip-hop is the music of the youth. Twenty-year-old ...

Fabolous earned his first ever no. 1 Billboard debut last week with the release of his fifth studio album, Loso’s Way, but this week the ...