Jay Rock

Ed. Note: The following interview with Ab-Soul and Jay Rock is pulled from the outtakes from XXL's TDE cover story in our upcoming Oct/Nov issue.  There was no real rhyme or reason to how we grabbed the members of TDE for conversations during the photo shoot for our Oct/Nov cover story. We pulle...

Ed. Note: The following interview with Terrence "Punch" Henderson is pulled from the outtakes from XXL‘s TDE cover story in our upcoming Oct/Nov issue.  While Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith is the namesake and visionary behind the growing Top Dawg Ent. empire, it's T...

Jay Rock remixes Pusha T's "Numbers On The Board", adding an impressive touch to the smooth track. As the TDE MC lays an effortless flow over the popular tune, Rock speaks nothing but the truth on the rendition. Check out Jay Rock's remix with ad-libs from Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z...

Isaiah Rashad drops the remix for his hit record "Shot You Down." For "Shot You Down (Remix)," Isaiah stays in camp and enlists the help of two of TDE's OGs, Jay Rock and ScHoolboy Q, for a track that should get some major buzz. The 21-year-old Chattanooga native has seen his popularity skyrocketed since signing to TDE and drops a record at the perfect time. Lis...

Terrace Martin Goes Behind The Boards With Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa And Problem

Last night's BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher appearance from XXL cover-stars highlighted something we've know for a while: TDE has incredible rappers and they sound incredible together. The interplay between the group last night—the nods, the glances, yep, the high-five—was part of what made the cypher so special. These guys...

In May, there were murmurs of TDE signing their next artist. Tennessee rapper Isaiah Rashad was already a buzzword in the industry before he even dropped a full project to back it up. Peter Rosenberg, who is always on point when it comes to inside information, tweeted that he met the newest signee, but couldn’t say much about it. A mo...

Last night, BET aired its annual BET Hip-Hop Awards, which means one thing: cyphers. While the awards themselves are more often than not treated as an afterthought at the ceremony, the cyphers still have the potential to make waves. With an early clip of Kendrick Lamar's appearance leaking weeks before the show, anticipation was higher than ever...

With Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul plus newest additions Isaiah Rashad and SZA, Top Dawg Entertainment has proven already that it's the illest crew in hip-hop right now, and it's all just begun. TDE's Black Hippy group appears on the cover of the October/November issue of XXL with a special photo shoot by Jonathan Mannion and story by kris ex, which explores the fast-growing s

If you haven't seen them yet, or to refresh your memory, you can watch the BET cyphers here. Cypher 7 with Asia Sparks, Bad Lucc, Problem and Astr is only available online. BET Hip-Hop Awards Cyphers Line-Up Cypher 1 – Wax, Rapsody, Emis Killa, Rittz, Jon Connor Cypher 2 – A$AP Ferg, A$AP Twelvy, A$AP Nast, A$AP Ant, A$AP Rocky Cypher 3 – Action Bronson, Star Life Breezy,Travis $cott, Tifanny Fox

As we wind down a month-long look back over the last 150 issues of XXL and the biggest hip-hop events during that time, some of our friends and supporters hit us up with some-outs that we're sharing in this video. We'd like to thank our readers, fans, haters, staff, rappers, managers, producers, labels, executives, PR people and everyone else for the last 150 issues and in the words of Snoop, &quo

The phrase “Slept-On” often sounds like a misnomer when you’re dealing with artists on the come up. Of course they’re “Slept-On,” when they haven’t even broken yet. However, hip-hop has a long history of the success of rap crews led by one very specific leader in each camp. The result is other acts tend to get ove...