Bun B

H-TOWN! Although both hail from Houston, Texas, it was certainly unexpected to see Bun B and Solange break out in a dance routine in her just released video "Lovers In The Parking Lot". Taking place in a flee market, the songstress struts around breaking it down later linking with Mannie Fresh and Bun to execute a two-step move...

The return of trill. Bun B comes out hard with a "Fire" new single featuring Rick Ross, 2 Chainz and Serani. His new album on Rap-A-Lot records, Trill 4 Life, is slated to drop later this year.

Rap-A-Lot Records, the Houston-based record label that made a name for itself in the early 1990s with the Geto Boys and then went on to be the home of UGK, Slim Thug and Devin The Dude, among others, has signed a new major distribution deal with RED, a subsidiary of Sony Music...

Kicking off October 2, Atlanta will welcome the 9th annual A3C festival. Brining together both the old and new school the festival will include performances from Ghostface Killah, Too Short, Bun B,ScHoolboy Q, A$AP Ferg,and Rich Homie Quan...

Tory Lanez has been busy—just take a look at his DatPiff catalogue, and you'll find 10 mixtapes he's released since 2010, and those are just the ones he hasn't had taken down in a fit of history-cleansing. Now, three years after releasing his debut tape Just Landed (captioned "Its A New Genre Of Music !!! CA...

Drake's definitely charting new territory with the release of "Hold On We're Going Home". The smooth sounding disco-esque track has a completely new feel and with that comes both admirers and critics. Here at XXL, our staff did a little digging to discover how the streets were feeling about the record...

From new bangers from 2 Chainz, Big Sean and Drizzy to major media fuckups from Riley Cooper and Don Lemon to simple appreciations of success—with a couple celebrations of classic releases in between—hip-hop has had a lot to say in the past week, and they took to Twitter to say it. We've coll...

A few days after putting out his collaboration with 16-year-old phenom Bishop Nehru, legendary B-more producer Aaron LaCrate lets loose of his new Milkcrate Athletics mixtape. The tape finds LaCrate handling production duties, and features guest appearances from Bun B, ScHoolboy Q, The Cool Kids, Jim Jones, Mobb Deep and Rakim, among others. Listen t...

When it was announced earlier this week that Harvard University had developed a fellowship in honor of legendary Queens MC Nas, it sent minor shockwaves through an industry that may have felt somewhat shunned by higher education in the past...

This week, Twitter collectively lost its mind when the rarest of all rarities happened: Jay-Z started tweeting to fans. In the wake of the release of his twelfth solo studio album, he took to the platform to respond to fan questions about Magna Carta Holy Grail, and to have fun as well. But...

On today's edition of baller life, we have Meek Mill showing off his cars and chain at the same damn time, Rick Ross snapping a pic of Wale on top of a custom whip, Mac Miller private tour of the late great Elvis Presley's  house, Action Bronson showing off some illegal food, Soulja Boy showing off his super hi-tech watch, Bun B showing off his Ghost, French Montana in front of his favorite toys a

This week in the hip-hop Twittersphere was especially wild, spearheaded by a series of people unearthing tweets by rappers such as Action Bronson, Meek Mill and Travis Scott from years ago, sparking a controversy-that-wasn't-a-controversy and causing some rappers to go back and delete old tweets...