XXL Mag

It was announced last year that the Jordan Brand would be releasing their 2015 retros as a remastered version from their previous retro kicks. The reason for the remastering is because the Jordan Brand wants to ensure their product is made up of the best quality for their consumers, and on Jan...

Pro Era member Kirk Knight is the face of the new campaign from Billionaire Boys Club for their EU Exclusive Leather MA-1 jacket. The photoshoot was shot by Slick Jackson in the heart of New York's Chinatown. The jacket is an EU Exclusive product, with the leather sourced, dyed and fabricated within Europe featuring embossed Aviation styled Flying B on the chest, large embossed Japanese Arch logo

Run The Jewels had  as big a 2014 as any hip-hop artist or group out there. With a sold out tour, and a critically acclaimed  album with Run The Jewels 2 that landed on nearly every year end list, the duo set a new precedent for indie artists in 2015. As the group's pro ...

Is emo humor going to be a thing? Well, it's been a long time coming, and who's a better choice to kick off the genre than Earl Sweatshirt? He teams up with skateboarder Na'Kel for the comic "silenceDArapgame." Here, you don't take the stark production at face value: "Merry Christmas, bitch/ I bought you a present/ It's a fuckin' Mac 11/ See your boyfriend in heaven...

It almost seems like every six months there's a new, wildly different movement pouring out of the Atlanta hip-hop scene, whether it be the trap stylings of Migos, the wild child freeness of Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug or the alt-hip-hop/R&B/indie rap led by the Makonnen's and Father's of the world. En...

With recent news that Birdman may be getting booted from his Miami condo due to $12.5K in outstanding fees, everyone has been wondering if the Cash Money mogul has more problems than Lil Wayne wanting to leave the label. The monetary slack comes as a surprise to many...

"Welcome 2 Brooklyn" probably isn't going to become hip-hop's anthem for Brooklyn, but it's still a solid tribute. Monday brings the video to M.O.P. and Maino's joint and features scenes from the city that Taylor Swift isn't accustomed to: Brownsville, Fort Greene (closer by the projects), et al...

If you're reading this, chances are most of your heroes don't appear on postage stamps. Jay Z understands. Sitting down for a talk with Oprah's Master Class, the most famous man from Marcy puts in very plain terms how crucial he thinks hip-hop is: "It's very difficult to teach racism when your kid looks up to Snoop Doggy Dogg...

Suit and tie flow. A few weeks ago, Common and John Legend unleashed their newest collaboration entitled "Glory" for the movie Selma. Already being praised and receiving critical acclaim, the record has been nominated for "Best Original Song" at this year's Golden Globes Awards...

"Torn Love" by DuRu Tha King and Deniro Farrar takes a bleaker look at hustling — one where there's no hope and death around corner. The song gets a fitting video where colors are muted and preachers are portrayed as zealots speaking to an empty choir. In d...

Missed out on any music dropped by Ludacris over the last few months? Fear not, Ludacris has you covered. Mixed by DJ Infamous, Luda's latest mixtape, LudaVerses, is a 20-minute compilation that features guest verses, remixes and freestyles the ATL native has done recently. Fea ...

Monster was so good that some might even argue that it's better than the Honest album. That's an argument for another day, but Future still saw it fit to deliver a video for "Mad Luv" — a cut off the mixtape. It's his first new video of 2015. I...