French Montana

Chinx Drugz is working hard at being the next artist to rise from Coke Boyz. Coming off the release of his Cocaine Riot 3 mixtape, Chinx puts together a visual for the intro. Retitled “Voices,” the video features him contemplating how to chase the money. It may hav...

This week in the world of hip-hop Instagrams, two bitterly embattled foes—Nicki Minaj and Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg—finally meet for a long-awaited interview. At the same time, Jay Rock and Freddie Gibbs link up with Adidas, while Snoop Dogg ups the ante on bottle service. And for so...

French Montana’s first-week sales numbers of Excuse My French are in. The debut album, which was released under a joint venture between Bad Boy and MMG, was projected to sell between 45,000 to 50,000 copies. According to Hits Daily Double, French album landed at No. 6 on...

Cap 1 returns with another visuals off his latest mixtape, T.R.U. 2 It., which we placed on our best mixtapes of March list. In the black and white clip for “Werk,” 2 Chainz and French Montana are also featured. This is directed by Sharod Marcus Simpson. Watch t...

Although hip-hop was largely absent from the top 50 spots of Billboard's Top 200 chart, this week saw one of rap's most anticipated new acts crack the top ten. Amidst perennial chart toppers like Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, French Montana's studio debut Excuse My French premiered at No. 6 on the...

Lil Durk Goes From Glory Boy To Coke Boy

This week in the hip-hop Twittersphere, Kanye West teases the full lyrics of "Black Skin Head," Chief Keef and Katy Perry go at it and then make amends, French Montana signs Lil Durk to Coke Boys and Meek Mill airs out a fake friend. Also, Action has no respect for you if you're not rocking head-to-toe Karl Kani, and The Alchemist tries to take a dump standing up...

Last week, XXL introduced its weekly Friday photo gallery of rappers enjoying the finer things in life. Now, we continue that series with a new collection of flicks from the past week. Click through the above gallery to see Swizz Beatz's mobile work station, Yo Gotti's infinity pools, Kid Ink's view in Las Vegas and more....

Whenever there is a sports reference in a song, its always a good day in hip-hop. Mack Maine enlists the help from Ace Hood, French Montana, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled and Busta Rhymes for "Kobe Or Ginobili (Remix)." This is a star-studded remix that is meant to be played at extremely loud volumes...

This week in the world hip-hop Instagrams, Jay-Z links up with a litany of collaborators, French Montana celebrates the release of his studio debut Excuse My French, Drake kicks it in Hollywood and more. At the same time, Ab-Soul shows off his performance at the Los Angeles leg of the XXL Freshmen Live 2013 tour, while fellow Freshman Travi$ Scott shows of his new project Owl Pharaoh. Click and sc

What French Montana has always lacked in technical ability, he’s made up for with personality. French is a stone cold charmer; a Waka Flocka Flame with less energy in many ways. Like Waka, his approach to music is similar to that of a high school football jock who decides he can do anything—act in plays, do well academically, and invevitably, rap— so he does it all in an earnest and sincere way. E

French Montana belted out his signature “HAAAHNNN” from backstage of his Webster Hall Excuse My French album release party at approximately 1:56 a.m. This perfect climactic break followed the anticipation that mounted just moments before: DJs Funk Flex and Bobby Trends scrambling with (seemingly) late playlists, entourages staking their territories on stage and a general social media quiet storm b