By The Numbers

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To use his own vernacular, Rick Ross is having a Bawse year. This past Spring saw the release of Mastermind, his first solo release at retail since 2012's God Forgives, I Don't. Mastermind was generally well received by fans and critics alike and became Rozay's fifth No. 1 a...

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Continuing to celebrate the life and career of The Notorious B.I.G., XXL breaks down the Brooklyn native's classic debut album Ready To Die by the numbers...

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In 2007 XXL changed the landscape of hip-hop’s breeding ground by tapping a crop of promising up-and-coming rappers to grace one of its covers. Tagged “Leaders of the New School,” the group featured a mix of MCs who’d recently made waves with their debuts (Rich Boy, Plies, Lil Boosie) and others who’d built a strong buzz in anticipation for their first major-label look (Saigon, Papoose, Joell Orti

Rick Ross' sixth studio album Mastermind hit stores this week, and the Maybach Music Group head honcho has enjoyed a generally positive response to his long-awaited followup to 2012's God Forgives, I Don't. Embedded inside the album's sixteen tracks are a lot of Ross' typical lyrical tropes—coke dealing, violence, Wingstop and general over-the-top luxuriousness—and the album, predictably, is full

It’s that time again. With every big release, XXL has put it on constant repeat to unearth some interesting facts and numbers. Before Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP 2 officially hit stores on Tuesday, we took in the project and found that he hasn’t steered too far away from his former self. Historically, Em’...

This week, DJ Khaled is releasing his seventh studio album Suffering From Success. For months, Khaled has hyped up Suffering From Success with a series of big singles—“No New Friends” and “I Wanna Be With You—which the latter included a fake proposal to Nicki Minaj in order to promote the song. Now, everything is falling into p...

Numbers are important to Drake: times, area codes and dollar amounts fill his music with about as much frequency as shout-outs to his hometown of Toronto. On his lush, ambitious new album Nothing Was The Same, Drake is taking us back to zero, dialing back some of the excesses of his first two albums and attempting to craft a record that cuts to the core of who Aubrey Graham really is...