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It's been over two years since A$AP Rocky dropped his debut album Long. Live. ASAP. Over those two years, it seemed like Rocky was doing everything else rather than releasing music. He dived further into high fashion by posing in DKNY’s Spring 2014 ad campaign and playing football in Times Square with supermodels Cara Delevingne, Jourdan Dunn and Eliza Cummings...

Wale is taking things back to his roots on his upcoming fourth studio LP, The Album About Nothing, returning to the Jerry Seinfeld-influenced tradition of his early mixtapes, The Mixtape About Nothing and More About Nothing. And the best way to rep that tradition was to hold a listening party at Tom's Restaurant in Harlem, the infamous spot on the corner of 112th street that served as the facade t

It's been a long road for Rico Love. The singer/rapper has spent more than a decade in the industry operating behind the scenes, largely as a writer and producer for the likes of Usher, Beyonce, Nelly, B.o.B, T.I., Wiz Khalifa and A$AP Rocky, among others...

In a room that held fewer than 60 people sitting tucked away in one of L.A.’s most exclusive venues, The SoHo House, select members of the media were introduced to Big Sean’s highly anticipated follow up to 2013’s Hall Of Fame, his third LP Dark Sky Paradise...

What a difference a year can make. After signing his deal with RCA, Kid Ink released his major label debut album My Own Lane and nothing has been the same. Years prior Ink was one of the hardest working indie artists, releasing an album and five mixtapes...

Like a football coach who makes adjustments after a shaky first half, Big K.R.I.T. went back to the drawing board after his Def Jam debut Live From The Underground. Two years removed from his first major label LP, the 2011 XXL Freshman saw his music didn’t push the needle in hip-hop like he hoped...

B.o.B isn’t going to deny that he has the best musical album of 2013. “I feel like nobody can do what I can do. If I were just a rapper, if that’s all I did, if I didn’t produce or sing, I’d be the best rapper,” he tells XXL during a private session of Underground Luxury earlier this month...

After a three-year hiatus since 5.0, Nelly is returning with a major album that could potentially have him on another wild run in music. On September 30, the hip-hop veteran is dropping his seventh studio album M.O. The features are packed with old and new collaborators such as Future, T...