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Coming off his studio debut Starr only a few months ago, TeeFLii is back again and he's ready to play with his new mixtape AnnieRUO'TAY 4. This is a tape for the ladies and the West Coast singer makes that very clear from the jump. The 19-t...

Directed by Travis Satten (@travissatten) Produced by ApK (@weareapk) XXL's 2015 Freshman Class was revealed Wed., June 3. All this month we’ve been providing you with a behind-the-scenes look at the selection process, the photo shoot and the work it takes to pull it all together. Last week...

Wiz Khalifa and A$AP Rocky are taking their talents across the pond for an 11-date tour this fall. Traveling trhough the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium, the duo are doing mostly stadium dates which should lead to some massive crowds who will certainly be excited to see two of the biggest rappers in the game today ...

Kidd Kidd was arrested before the 2015 XXL Freshman concert last night (June 30) in Times Square in New York. The G-Unit rapper was handcuffed outside the Best Buy Theater in front of hundreds of fans. The Southern MC was one of the rappers in the new XXL Freshman class and was scheduled to perform for the crowd. TMZ reports that the NYPD wa...

The man who gave us "Shawty" and "Sweet Pwussy Saturday" celebrates another year!

Respect M-I-S-S!

Geto Boys unload a classic LP.

Puff Daddy and the Family make their debut.

God bless the mixtape. As he continues to tease his newest compilation, DJ Holiday taps Compton menace Problem, DC's mainstream hope, Wale, and French Montana, America's favorite social climber. The resultant track, "Let Me At Em," skews toward the left side of the map, owing to DJ Mustard's recent run of radio dominance and his Bay Area forefathers...

Kendrick Lamar's dense, ambitious sophomore album, To Pimp a Butterfly, can be difficult to digest. Influences--G-funk, P-funk, jazz, soul--swirl, political diatribes intersect with one another, poems and interviews with dead rappers cloud your field of vision. But...

If anyone has been through the industry wringer, it's Joell Ortiz. In the middle of the last decade, during hip-hop's ringtone dynasty era, the Brooklyn MC made a name for himself as a gritty, animated realist. He signed to Aftermath when the reverberations of Get Rich or Die Trying were still ringing throughout the industry, then released the independent album The Brick: Bodega Chronicles, which

Right Wing media's public crusade against hip-hop continues. Following Kendrick Lamar's powerful performance at the 2015 BET Awards, Geraldo Rivera hopped on Fox News to blast Lamar's stage time, which featured the rapper rhyming on top of a vandalized cop car ...