Let me guess - the new plan is to find dudes that sound just like other dudes people used to like, with a particular emphasis ...

What up, XXLMag.com readers? I just got back from week-long vacay so I’ma lil' out the loop on rap news. But while I was ...

Bun B No Mixtape Beats: XL Lyrics: XL Originality: XL Originally, Bun B’s latest effort, No Mixtape, wasn’t even supposed to happen. So it’s ironic that, after teasing his ...

Two years ago today, Chad Lamont Butler—better known as Pimp C, one-half of the legendary UGK—passed away in an L.A. hotel room. The Port Arthur, ...

Nine years ago today (November 16), hip-hop lost one of its great architects, DJ Screw, who passed away at the age of 29 from a ...

With the untimely passing of Pimp C two years ago, most thought it was the end of UGK. However, surviving member Bun B carried on ...

Okay, kiddies, yesterday we covered A through M of rap fandom, now let’s rock N through Z. Get in where you fit in. N: Nigga – ...

Consider this one yet another episode of True Recession Stories. Today’s subject: Poppa Diddy Pop. Here’s the Rap-Flavored Blog Reader’s Digest version of what went ...

You gotta give J. Prince his just due. He started Rap-A-Lot Records in the mid to late ’80s (not too long after Def Jam) and ...