Eric B. & Rakim

There have been some strange happenings with the official Eric B. and Rakim Twitter account recently.

Can they still move a crowd?

XXL compiles 30 rap albums that have played an integral part in how rap fans listen to and appreciate hip-hop. Check them out and get inspired.

It's no secret that the hip-hop and comic book cultures have always had a symbiotic relationship. This fall, Marvel Comics plans to give fans physical evidence of that phenomenon by reissuing five of its seminal works with covers that invoke classic hip-hop albums. The first, de...

Not bad for a debut album.

On this day, May 22, in hip-hop history, Eric B. and Rakim dropped 'Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em.'

On this day, June 23, in hip-hop history… 1992: It wasn’t supposed to be their last album. Both members of the duo were interested in working on solo projects, but The R and The President had no intention of splitting after their fourth LP was released and their contract with MCA expired. When disput...

XXL highlights rappers who were cheated by the prestigious award ceremony.

On the strength of some genre-defining albums and a flow that birthed a thousand MC's, Rakim has a clear claim to the status of one of hip-hop's leading lights. But over a 25-plus-year career, and with a dwindling output that has seen him drop only three albums in the past decade and a half, there are a lot of unsolved questions and mysteries surrounding the original God MC—after all, what happene

The Top 50 Summer Releases Of All Time

Eric B. & Rakim and the Beastie Boys are on the ballot for next year's possible inductees...

Shyne Po expresses his deep love for music and how it kept him sane while in the belly of the beast...