More than ever, rappers are giving fans short, compact pieces of music, rather than full-lengths LPs. The format, formally known as an EP, or “extended ...

When Rick Ross proclaimed the middle months of the calendar his on “Summer’s Mine,” the rap heavyweight wasn’t only taking subliminal shots at Young Jezzy ...

REPS: Dallas, TX STATS: 36B-25-38 CAREER HIGHLIGHT: “Being featured in various music videos, such as Paul Wall’s ‘Patron,’ Ludacris, The-Dream, Shawty-Lo, and Gucci Man’s ‘A-Town,’ Dorrough’s ‘Ice ...

After two memorable performances in Detroit, Jay-Z and Eminem’s Home & Home Tour had a lot to live up to when it landed in New ...

This past August, Lil Wayne conducted one of his first radio interviews from jail with Funkmaster Flex. During the call to New York’s Hot 97 ...

It seems that the dispute between Lil Wayne and producer Bangladesh is nearing an end. Bangladesh, the producer behind Weezy’s smash hit “A Milli,” had ...

It’s game time. With football season officially underway tonight, New Orleans vs. Minnesota in prime time, XXL tore eight pages from various NFL playbooks to ...

When you’re the one of the biggest rappers in the game and you land in prison, you’re bound to be treated a little differently than ...

Originally published in the November 2005 issue of XXL In the early morning hours of Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast ...