New Music

Quilly's drops a new freestyle titled "Poppin My Collar." The super funny Welvendagreat appears on the cover of new freestyle. With over 693,000 followers on Instagram and over 143,000 fans on Vine, Welven is a growing sensation in the world of social media comedy. One...

Christian Rich, the duo comprised of Nigerian brothers, has dropped off their newest single, "High." As producers, the two have become deeply embedded in the music industry, especially on the left coast: their credits include songs on Doris, Earl Sweatshirt's debut album, as well as credits on Childish Gambino's Because the Internet, J. Cole's B...

Though initially renowned for his business acumen, TDE's Punch has taken to the Internet to give a window into his creative pursuits. His latest offering, "Fear," positions him as one of the more gripping writers in his own family: cascading rhyme schemes, clear imagery, creeping self-doubt...

A$AP Twelvyy songs come few and far between but every time he drops, A$AP's secret weapon reminds listeners that his gritty sound is booming with potential. Late last night (April 16), Twelvyy dropped the Buda Da Future and GrandMuzik produced track that will keep A$AP fans wondering when a full Two Twelve Mel project is dropping ...

It's been almost three years since Jay Z dropped "Glory." Today (Apr. 16), he premieres the video to the song on Tidal, his newly acquired music streaming website. The visual uses footage from Hov's Carnegie Hall live orchestral rehearsal sessions back in 2012...

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the release of August Alsina's debut album, Testimony, XXL exclusively presents the remix to "Right There" featuring Meek Mill. The two expressive street raised artists come together for the reflective track, crafting up quite an emotionally uplifting ballad...

24-year-old rapper Wasiu drops an excellent new single today. "Many Dreams" is produced by Soulection producer/fellow Montrealer Da-P dabeatX who puts his chef hat on and cooks up a melodic beat using a vocal sample from 2pac's "Runnin'." Wasiu r...

With the release date for his long-awaited debut album, Free TC, finally set for June 2, the superlatively talented Ty Dolla $ign lets loose with the video for his Charli XCX- and Tinashe-assisted single, "Drop That Kitty." The tour-de-euphemistic-force is punctuated by outsized cat costume heads, Slurpees (we don't think they're metaphors) and an over-eager Ty nearly leaping out of a co

Beatking releases the video for “BDA (Remix)" featuring Danny Brown. The song was premiered with XXL back in January. The Houston artist released a fantastic new mixtape called Club God 4 back in February. That's following the underrated collaborative tape Underground Cassette Tape Music with Gangsta Boo, which released in 2014 . The video for “BDA ...

Large Professor dropped a new single off his upcoming album Re:Living. "Opulence" is plush, boasting smooth keys and crisp drums.  "Opulence" is the third single off his upcoming LP. The man behind the boards of many hip-hop heavyweights like Nas, A Tribe Called Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, Mobb Deep, Tragedy Khadafi and Big Daddy Kane, LP is a legend that has nothing to prove i

Dave East didn't make it to Coachella this year; he was too busy trapping Uptown to pay the bills. East spits hard bars about breaking down kilos of cocaine over an Automatik Beatz instrumental that has a heavy LOX influence. The rising New York artist is gaining stream on the underground and is a quintessential East Coast MC with a gritty delivery and flow to match his drug talk and street tale

The original version of "Runaway" marked Pell as a potential star on Soundcloud and in his native New Orleans; the remix, featuring White Sea, has been picking up steam over the past several months. Now, the second video video for the song has arrived, and this time, it's animated--not just expressive and emotive, but really, literally animated...