Raekwon

With Super Bowl XLVIII around the corner (Feb. 2), XXL went around and asked 20 rappers their predictions. Here's what they said. As always, for the best football coverage on the web, hit our friends at TDdaily.com and follow @TDdaily on Twitter!   Ice Cub...

Promoter Damon Feldman threw down a challenge, offering George Zimmerman money to step inside the ring in a celebrity boxing match. It was reported today that Game wants to have an opportunity at a chance to fight Zimmerman. Game is a notorious for getting into fist fights, but he's isn't the only one...

2014 comes with a lot of long-awaited projects and artists finally fulfilling promises—Nipsey Hu$$le, ScHoolboy Q, 50 Cent and YG are a few whose albums are finally slated for this year—as well as a number of heavyweights—Rick Ross, Juicy J, Raekwon and T.I.—getting back o...

XXL highlights rappers who were cheated by the prestigious award ceremony.

Rappers are all over TV, whether they're starring in and producing their own shows like Eve or writing them like Childish Gambino. But there are a few other series ideas kicking around XXL that we'd like to see explored, mostly in the reality TV realm...

Mobb Deep announced late last year that they'd be getting together for a new, self-titled album due out at the end of March, which would also come with a remastered edition of their iconic The Infamous album from 1995 and a disc of ten unreleased tracks from the original Infamous sessions. They als...

Raekwon is prepping his sixth solo effort—and first since 2011's Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang—titled F.I.L.A. later this Spring, and he shared a few details about the album while visiting the XXL offices yesterday (Jan. 21). The album, whose tit...

According to Popa Wu, The Wu-Tang Clan's A Better Tomorrow album is almost completed, but is still missing verses from Raekwon. Initial reports from November 2013 insinuated The Chef was responsible for the project's delay, and quotes from Popa's most recent interview imply an on-going trend...

Kardinal Offishall taps Raekwon and Assassin for “Pretty Paper.” The dancehall tune weaves in boom-bap for two lyrical forces to ride the beat with ease. Some may die for the pretty paper, but these guys won’t be one of them. ...

As some in the hip-hop community are still reeling from news of the shooting death of Grand Hustle rapper Doe B, Raekwon pays homage by putting out a new record in which he collaborates with the late rapper and T.I. titled, "I Wanna Know...

It's been a hell of a year for hip-hop, with the big dogs all dropping albums, the underground bubbling like never before and a crop of up-and-comers putting out some of the best music in years. But with so much great music floating around, hip-hop fans were bound to miss some things...

The Wu-Tang Clan has had a big year, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal debut album Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, touring the country and Europe, and working on their long-awaited sixth group album, A Better Tomorrow. With all...