Whether you like it or not, hip-hop is prime fodder for reality TV. From rapper-versus-rapper competitions to melodramatic relationship exposés, the inherent drama of the ...

May is coming to a close, and that means that most schools around the country will be out for summer. With that in mind, XXL decided ...

At one point in time, hip-hop music wasn't the major musical force that it is today; it was a fad relegated to the South Bronx, ...

The NBA playoffs are in full-swing, and with only four series left, it's coming down to the final moment to determine which team's the ...

This Sunday, the staffers at XXL will be celebrating Mother's Day and honoring the beautiful women who brought us into this world, and we suggest ...

On 2005's "Old School Rules" by Danger Doom, Talib Kweli raps that, "I might be buggin but it seem to me/That cartoons be realer than ...

Yesterday, Snoop Dogg threw fans for a loop when he confirmed that his pimp persona was less of a rap get-up and more of ...

Snoop Dogg, a.k.a. Snoop Lion, has made enough songs about pimping to convince his fans that he might have been one. In the latest issue ...

Yesterday, the world of music was rocked when news broke that Rihanna and Chris Brown had finally called it quits. It was surely a ...