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When Did You Realize Kanye West Was Great?

Nov 22nd, '10  •  by XXL Staff  •  82 Comments

I am not a trendsetter, trend spotter or tastemaker. In fact, I’m usually pretty late to the party. For example, I didn’t listen to Drake’s ...

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Who does Nicki Minaj have to blow around here to get five mics?

Aug 3rd, '10  •  by XXL Staff  •  18 Comments

One thing Lil Kim will always have over Nicki Minaj is that Lil Kim is one of the few artists in general and perhaps the ...

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Remember when magazine covers meant something?

Apr 2nd, '10  •  by XXL Staff  •  36 Comments

I was in a grocery store the other day, debating whether to buy a pack of light bulbs or live in semi-darkness for a while ...

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Hoodrats are from the future

Feb 17th, '10  •  by XXL Staff  •  26 Comments

Part of the reason hip-hop is in such a sad state of affairs is because hoodrats have all of the money, and obviously they don't ...

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Is this the end for rap magazines?

Feb 6th, '09  •  by XXL Staff  •  28 Comments

Word on the street is that every major hip-hop magazine is either going out of business in the short run, or involved in some sort ...

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NEGRO PLEASE: Floyd Mayweather Robs His Own Jewelz

Sep 5th, '08  •  by XXL Staff  •  24 Comments

It's Robbery Week on "Negro, Please!" [Blogger's Note: I know. That sounds very ...

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Whores all around us

Aug 21st, '08  •  by XXL Staff  •  40 Comments

If there's an upside to all of these Superhead books being released, it's that it gives the lie to this idea that rappers unfairly portray ...

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Can the Source be redeemed?

Aug 20th, '08  •  by XXL Staff  •  20 Comments

Is anyone here a fan of those newspaper articles that read as if a corporation contacted a reporter and asked what it would cost to ...

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Former Source Editor To Tell All In Revealing Book; Pep of Salt-N-Pepa Also To Release Memoirs

May 9th, '08  •  by XXL Staff  •  12 Comments

Kim Osorio, the first female editor-in-chief of The Source, is set to release a tell-all manuscript on her days at the helm of the once ...

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