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Yesterday, the ten-year anniversary of The Black Album was celebrated. Looking back at Jay’s “last album” and its cultural impact, there’s a lot to say about how Jay transitioned from his hustling days to the hip-hop mogul of today. What’s even more telli...

Google Play Music became available today as a iOS application. The new Google Play Music app has the standard, free Google Play Music service and its All Access, Google's subscription streaming music service. The free version of the app enables users to match and upload your music collection to the cloud allowing up to 20,000 songs to be uploaded to the cloud through multiple ways...

It hasn't been long since the platinum-selling Nothing Was The Same dropped, but Drake is already back at it. Last night at a club in Houston, Drizzy previewed a new track he's recorded with Compton's YG and DJ Mustard. From a clip posted on Instagram, the song seems to be built on a heavy piano beat and Drake talking about his work ethic in the studio...

Rumors are flying that Drake and Rihanna are back together, and last night the two were spotted dropping some serious cash at a Houston strip club. Evidently Drake joined Rihanna at the club around 2 a.m. and, according to a stripper who works there named Blaze (nice), "they looked like a couple." Th...

The argument could be made that hip-hop is the rock and roll of today. It's got the stars, the drugs and--most importantly--the music that's capable of shocking and awing. So it shouldn't be that surprising when a rock legend declares their appreciation for hip-hop, like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page recently did when he released his rework of Biggie's "Hypnotize...

Photo Courtesy Of Instagram There have been numerous reports of Lil Kim being accused of stealing the work of a makeup artist named Samantha Ravndahl. Now, Kim has responded to the alleged beef and stated she has nothing to do with it. “I don’t know what the heck is going on,” Kim tells XXL. “If there were s...

Childish Gambino is taking a creative approach to the lyric video concept. For his song "3005," which will appear on his upcoming Because The Internet, he's created a video that depicts him web camming with porn star Abella Anderson. And...

The last time we heard anything from Frank Ocean, he suffered a small tear in his vocal chords while on tour in Australia. He was forced to cancel the rest of the tour and has been M.I.A. since then. Well, today he took to his Twitter to declare that he's officially "back to work...

As part of the Ruff Riders, producer Swizz Beatz and Yonkers MC DMX had a string of hits together. Evidently the two are working to recreate that magic. On a recent visit to MTV's RapFix Live, Swizzy stated that he's "all about DMX" right now and that he "can't wait" for their new collaborative work to come out. Whe...

One great remixes another. Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin frontman and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has seemingly made a remix to the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize." The remix, titled "Ramblize," is built on a guitar loop sampled from Zeppelin's "Ramble On" and an old-school breakbeat and has been posted to Page's website...

When Eminem chose to name his latest album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, he knew the amount of comparison between this album and his third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP would be immense. Many consider his original 2000 album  a classic. Em chops...

In the wake of his recent claim that Atlanta runs New York music, Trinidad Jame$ has been called a lot of things. But, according to Jame$ himself, people who take the time to know him only call him one thing: "dad." That may seem like an odd term of endearment for a young, gold-grill-adorned rapper from the South, but it surprisingly fits; Jame$ has a calming presence beyond his years a