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The hunt for the next Gucci Mane

Feb 1st, '10  •  by XXL Staff  •  29 Comments

I've got some good news, and some bad news... The good news, for bum rappers, is that major labels are back signing mixtape rappers. The bad ...

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Attack of the bums

May 28th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  35 Comments

I may have mentioned this once or twice before, but my academic background, to the extent that you can even say I have an academic ...

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Relapse: The new Kingdom Come?

May 11th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  60 Comments

Could it be that Eminem's Relapse has a higher marketing budget than any rap album since Jay-Z's Kingdom Come? It'd be hard to say, without ...

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Do labels orchestrate rap beefs? Should they?

May 6th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  25 Comments

We joke about the TIs purposely orchestrating beefs between rappers, but I doubt that's really the case, even though it probably should be. The closest thing ...

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Rappers, Save Your Bullshit Mixtape Albums

Apr 21st, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  37 Comments

You know what's the lamest shit ever? When an artist puts out an album that isn't any good, and then they claim it's because that's ...

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Charles Hamilton’s new media strategy

Apr 2nd, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  25 Comments

Charles Hamilton might succeed at deflecting attention from his constant tomfoolery just by keeping up with it at such a breakneck speed. Who can even ...

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Did Rawse just play himself again?

Mar 16th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  30 Comments

Just the other day, I did a post on how Rick Ross was playing himself by not owning up to the fact that he used ...

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Deeper Than Rap: The next Curtis?

Mar 10th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  44 Comments

I thought Rick Ross might be able to benefit from his beef with Fiddy Cent, despite the fact that he pretty much had his ass ...

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How Noreaga turned lemons into lemonade

Feb 25th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  15 Comments

Let me guess, Noreaga went out and copped a crib he couldn't really afford, during the height of that reggaeton craze. As my Jewish lawyer in ...

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