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Another year gone by, another twelve months of great albums, mixtapes and songs to soundtrack various parties, commutes and roadtrips. But it's also been a banner year for artwork, be it for mixtapes or albums, across the board. 2013 saw the resurgence of hand-drawn covers, a particular focus on portrait frames, and the first-ever appearance of ...

It's been a hell of a year for hip-hop, with the big dogs all dropping albums, the underground bubbling like never before and a crop of up-and-comers putting out some of the best music in years. But with so much great music floating around, hip-hop fans were bound to miss some things...

It sounds like the set-up for a joke: How many buzzing rappers can you fit on one stage in Brooklyn? The answer: A lot, apparently. Last night, at an event hosted by Scion as part of their ongoing Open Mic hip-hop concert series, Brooklyn's the Knitting Factory played host to a rag-tag trio of artists with very little in common other than that they've been receiving more and more media attention i

Born into a big family with no father in a rough area around Charlotte, North Carolina, Deniro Farrar could have easily thrown his life away and succumbed to the negative environment around him. Yet he found a career in music, one that got kick-started by Charlotte-based manager David Luddy after Luddy heard Farrar freestyling outside of a nightclub in 2009...

Today, Charlotte rapper Deniro Farrar, with the help of his new manager Meko Yohannes of DOPE Group, was able to finalize a deal with VICE Records/Warner Bros Records. From Feel Me to The Patriarch 2, Farrar has been creating his own following for the past couple of years. He is now working on his official...

Off of his latest project, Deniro Farrar unveils the visual to the Child Actor featured track, "Death Or Forever." Only incorporating mere shadows of the rapper in the video, Deniro provides a quite interesting clip that matches perfectly with the unique track...

Gucci Mane, Deniro Farrar, Nacho Picasso, and Mack Shine for "Keys" which is produced by Seattle/Oakland duo Blue Sky Black Death. This is a bonus cyber-posse cut which was celebrated for the just released Glaciers LP, a new BSBD project they produced on a 1999 looping program. Seven-year-ol ...

With many lessons learned during a tough upbringing, Deniro makes known that he's well equipped for the future in "Everything is Ok." Mentioning several harsh trials in the video, the Charlotte rapper assures he's just fine as the chorus chants "It's all right, it's all right...

30 Rap Songs You Might've Missed This Summer

Today, Spadez teams up with Riff Raff and Deniro Farrar for “Hella Gone.” The Bay Area producer/rapper builds a funky backdrop for the two MCs to bring playful rhymes. To give it some dimensions, he belts an Auto-Tune-infused hook that is infectious. Listen...

As we put the finishing touches on our upcoming issue, the XXL staff is desperately trying to pick its collective head up and again immerse itself in whatever's happening in the outside world. Needless to say, we've got some catching up to do...

Deniro Farrar teams up with Melbourne, Australia producers, KIRA, for the track entitled "Social Status, " the fourth single off The Patriarch 2. The track has some bounce to it. Deniro deep-toned flow blends in perfectly on this record with DuRu slaying the first verse and the hook...