Ying Yang Twins

Hip-hop gets the last laugh.

Dave Chapelle is making his comeback this summer with nine scheduled shows at New York City’s famed Radio City Music Hall. The shows will feature a stand-up set but also a full orchestra and co-headlining musical guests like The Roots, Busta Rhymes, DJ Premier, Erykah Bad, Janelle Monae and Nas. Despit...

Ying Yang Twins rapper, Deongelo "D-Roc" Holmes, has been arrested over a domestic dispute in his home state, Georgia, reports TMZ. The alleged incident occurred last November when Holmes' wife Porsche claimed he struck her in the head causing bruising over her left eye...

Another year gone by, another twelve months of great albums, mixtapes and songs to soundtrack various parties, commutes and roadtrips. But it's also been a banner year for artwork, be it for mixtapes or albums, across the board. 2013 saw the resurgence of hand-drawn covers, a particular focus on portrait frames, and the first-ever appearance of ...

What is it about hip-hop mixtape cover art and horror iconography that goes so well together? The spectre of violence has always seemed to capture the imagination of hip-hop but when it comes to the art on your favorite rapper's mixtape, violence is pushed to it's logical and extremely gory extreme...

Earlier this week the Ying Yang Twins announced that they'd be releasing a new mixtape, Twurk Or Die, the follow-up to this year's comeback tape Ass In Session, and now the tape is here. Featuring some eye-popping cover art that finds the pair decked out in Freddy and Jason inspired Halloween costumes, the tape was executive produced by Mr...

The Ying Yang Twins are gearing up to drop their forthcoming mixtape, Twurk Or Die, this Friday, October 11. The mixtape is executive produced by Mr. Collipark, plus features production by ATLiens, DJ Paul and Mr. Hanky. Today they released a very interesting trailer for the mixtape to tease fans on what to expect on this tape. Her...

On Friday, amateur twerking enthusiast Miley Cyrus released her fourth album, Bangerz. Miley has described her latest work as something approaching "dirty South hip-hop" as the album is a significant departure from the squeaky-clean country pop of her previous efforts. Over the l...

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

Last week, hip-hop experienced its latest uproar when Kendrick Lamar claimed he was the “King of New York.” Rappers and fans alike had their own interpretations of his verse on Big Sean's "Control." Some said it was a shot at East Coast hip-hop, while others felt he was just hungry to be the greatest MC within the new school. Looking at...

If the passing whims of a Disney star can be seen as a portent of American culture as a whole, twerking is back on the national scene in a major way. With Miley Cyrus shaking her booty on stage with Juicy J and flocks of young women jiggling their assets on YouTube and Vine, twerking is more popular than ever, capturing the imagination of our more prurient interests and scaring confused parents in

We can all agree that it's hard to watch when older artists decide to reemerge and stake their claim in modern hip-hop. It's always forced and usually contrived, and almost always comes at the expense of a currently-popping artist. In keeping with that trend, Atlanta's Ying Yang Twins have recently had a resurgence of sorts, and have focused their re-claim to notoriety on one central platform—talk