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On this day, Oct. 19, in hip-hop history, Black Moon dropped their debut album, 'Enta Da Stage.'

Tony Yayo has been spitting over other people's beats for years now and offers up his latest freestyle over Black Moon's "Niguz Talk Shit" instrumental. Ringing in his 37th birthday, Yayo sounds right at home over the classic boom-bap beat from 1993 ...

This weekend, Eminem fueled the fire for Marshall Mathers LP 2 with an unexpected collaboration. A snippet of “Don’t Front” featuring Buckshot shows Em spitting venomous rhymes over the bassline-driven instrumental. The song pays homage to Black Moon’s “I Got Cha Opin,” which originally had Buckshot doing verbal acrobatics for three verses straight...

Black Moon's unheralded classic LP Enter da Stage turns the big 2-0 on Saturday. To commemorate the release, the trio lets us know how it all started in the new mini documentary, The Beginnings. The feature chronicles how 5 and Buckshot met as dancers, eventually formed a group and the story behind their debut album which featured the consummate hits "Who Got Da Props...

As we roll out our annual Top Ten Freshman List for 2013, XXL decided to take a look back 20 years to weigh in on who would have been the members of the Freshman Class in the year 1993. All decisions were based on our current Freshman guidelines, meaning entire groups and artists who had released their debut albums prior to the list date were excluded...

After Pete Rock's "T.R.O.Y." tantrum, XXL looks back at 10 other classic samples ...

Black Rob, Special Ed, Ghostface Killah and more rock out during Times Square Show...

Wu Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Slick Rick, Black Moon and Dipset will be performing shows in the five boroughs and 50% of our readers are excited about it...