Isaiah Rashad

The power of Twitter. A lot of your favorite rappers tweeted things early on in their career that could land them in hot water now. Sometimes their thoughts trickle down to their fingers and they quickly send snide tweets berating their peers...

In 2014, the line between free mixtape and for-sale EP blurred more than ever, as SoundCloud releases and Datpiff exclusives wound up on iTunes and Amazon with increasing regularity. But that didn't take away from the overall quality of the year...

Christmas comes early in South Central. As per a post late yesterday (Dec. 22) on the Top Dawg Entertainment Twitter page, the Los Angeles collective will be performing a free show today, Dec. 23, in Watts. Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Isaiah Rashad, and Jay Rock are expected at the Nickerson Garden Projects this afternoon for a free show that will run in conjunction with a toy drive... R

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TDE is said to be gearing up for a massive tour next year and this makes perfect sense as all of the artists on the label plan to release projects over the course of this year. Specifics have yet to be revealed but XXL recently spoke with the camp acquiring that the label is in the midst of planning a world tour...

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Now that we're at the halfway mark of the year, it's time to look back at some of the best mixtapes and free EPs that have come out in 2014. As we pointed out in our 25 Best Albums of 2014 (So Far) yesterday, at this time last year the heavy-hitters were rolling out their major albums, while we'd already gotten great tapes from Waka Flocka (DuFlocka Rant 2), Big K...

Photography By: Shaughn Crawford Hosted by Jae Murphy of Wild 'N' Out fame, the 2014 XXL Freshman Class head to the West for the second show of The Freshmen Live Tour 2014. The LA crowd were just as amped to see this year's picks and they weren't disappointed...

We’ve saved the best for last. After weeks of Freshmen content that included the cyphers, freestyles and roundtables, today we are dropping the 2014 XXL Freshmen mixtape featuring brand new tracks. Jam packed with guest appearances (2 Chainz, Lloyd Banks, Fabolous) as well as buzzing producers (The Olympicks, DJ Montay and Big Korey), it’s definitely a tape that our readers have been patiently wa

Top Dawg Entertainment continues to push new music from its artist in an attempt to put 2014 in the cobra clutch. After Ab-Soul recently leaked another song from his upcoming project, Isaiah Rashad drops his first video in a couple months giving a visual treatment to the Cilvia Demo standout, "Modest...

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brightcove.createExperiences(); Ever since we unveiled the cover of the XXL 2014 Freshmen issue last month, we’ve been rolling out a ton of freestyles, behind the scenes photos, interviews, videos and plenty more with our class of 12 guys. But now that we’ve ...