Kool Moe Dee

It's hunting season.

Eminem name-drops Machine Gun Kelly, 2 Chainz, Lord Jamar and more. Much more.

Rap's biggest battles.

Dust off your Discman.

On this day in 1989, Kool Moe Dee dropped his album 'Knowledge Is Power.'

Macklemore's "Downtown" video featured Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel, opening plenty of eyes. Moe and Mel spoke about hip-hop's history issue.

GQ just dropped an awesome oral history of Bad Boy Records entitled, "Aint Nothing Shine Brighter Than That Bad Boy" The Inside Story of Hip-Hop's Most Notorious Label and it is well worth the read. From stories of Puff showing up to meetings draped in a mink and dripping with diamonds to …

Shout out to a rap pioneer.

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One of the ideas that Kanye West has been trying to get across during his recent all-out assault on the media is the importance of not letting society putting your creativity in box. Kanye West wants to be known as more than just a rapper...

Earlier this week, Tony Touch blessed the Internet with a previously unreleased clip of Busta Rhymes and Ol' Dirty Bastard rapping together. Although the clip wasn't a rap battle, it got XXL thinking about some of the more legendary battles that we've watch from that era and even…

From Ice Cube to Lauryn Hill, XXL lists 25 MCs who emerged from groups to become even bigger stars...