Bi-coastal rap beefs and regional battles may be a thing of the past with the release of super-compilation album The Academy this September. More than 55 ...

The old hip-hop saying has been flipped over and over. XXL counts down its favorite references...

West Coast rappers Ras Kass and Game found themselves ringing in the New Year with a brawl in a Los Angeles nightclub. XXLMag.com connected with ...

Bay Area rapper/producer Droop-E recently released BLVCK Diamond Life, a conceptual mixtape featuring a track list composed entirely of songs using Sade samples. As he ...

Although they’ll be closing their New York City doors this week, Fat Beats, fittingly, won’t go without making some noise. As previously reported, both the New ...

On this, the 13th anniversary of Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace’s death, it’s time to pay homage to one of the all-time great lyricists. Coming into ...

You have to be creative to survive in a recession. That goes for rappers just as much as consumers. Veteran MC Ras Kass proved that ...

A sign of the times: I was gonna do a trend piece on broke rappers begging for money, but then it occurred to me that ...

What can we say about Bow Wow that hasn’t already been said about Lil’ Romeo? “Face numb im whippin the lambo,” he wrote. “Tispy as fuck.” ...