Jon Connor

It's amazing that it's already been a year since the 2014 XXL Freshman cover, when we unveiled our Dirty Dozen featuring two R&B artists for the first time ever. But now it's time to check the report card (click the image above). The pas...

Keep up to date with all our 2015 XXL Freshmen stories, freestyles, interviews and videos right here.

Check out all our coverage of the 2015 XXL Freshmen, including freestyles, cyphers, collaborations and interviews, right here.

Slum Village has long been a staple of the underground rap world. Their music, inventive but reverent, spread from Detroit like wildfire and has proved durable over the years, even as what it means to be 'underground' oscillated wildly. Their latest effort, Yes!, is...

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West Coast MC, Problem, has been making waves this year and is gearing up to headline his own 354: Lift Off tour that will hit smaller markets from California to Illinois. Accompanying the tour will be a new 13-track mixtape, 354: Lift Off, set to drop on Aug. 28....

Statik Selektah is expected to release his new album, What Goes Around, on Aug. 19. Before it comes out, the veteran DJ has gathered lyrical beasts Ab-Soul, Logic and Jon Connor for "Alarm Clock." Check it out above.

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...

From Lil Wayne dropping his new single to the 2014 XXL Freshmen show going down in LA, this week on Instagram was full of new happenings. With Khloe Kardashian also bringing in her 30th birthday alongside French Montana, check out XXL's "Best Hip-Hop Instagrams Of The Week...

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