For all of the money-focused bragging and boasting that hip-hoppers spit in song or speak in interviews, cash continues to rule everything around many. The ...

It’s about to be a new month, but we’ve got the same great show coming back for you. Joe Budden will be the next guest ...

Pastor Troy was in the XXL office yesterday (July 28) for our weekly real-time Ustream interview series, Channel Live. The good Pastor spoke with the staff ...

Throughout the years independent record labels have continued to evolve. Today independent is a term used to define any record label not owned or operated ...

From Xzibit (“Foundation”) and Game (“Like Father Like Son”) to Slick Rick (“It’s a Boy”) and Ed O.G. (“Be a Father”), hip-hop artists have always ...

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, ...

Freedom is a scary thing. In fact, some rappers would rather not face the challenge and remain within the confines of the crew or label ...

I dunno if it’s been said before but I'ma go ahead and say it here: Hip hop's fascination with the movie Scarface is weird. No ...

Even though Marion “Suge” Knight is years removed from his Freddy Krueger-like urban legend tales of funding Death Row Records by (allegedly) dangling Vanilla Ice ...