Busta Rhymes has been doing this rap thing for over 25 years now and his exuberance and vigor remains intact despite his age. Even though his long dreads aren’t swinging back and forth like they once did, Busta's effusiveness for the sport of rap is at an all-time high. Now,...
XXL Freshmen 2015 is coming and the freshman hopefuls are gearing up to possibly make this year’s class. With the 10 Spot voting just around the corner, we had to let the potentials tell us why they should appear on this year’s cover.
Our 3rd pitch is ...
There's no denying Busta's passion for the game. Even at 42-years-old, Busta goes harder than people half his age--as evidenced by the fall he took while supporting his newest artists O.T. Genasis during a performance of "Coco." Busta decided to let his emotions and love of the game spill through the ink when he penned an open letter to the entertainment industry thanking them for the s
Hip-hop has been morphing into a singles-driven genre for years now, and 2014 seemed to be the year when individual songs mattered more than ever. Tracks like "Loyal" and "We Dem Boyz" ruled the first half of the year before "Tuesday," "CoCo" and "I Don't Fuck With You" emerged to dominate the airwaves in the second half...
OT Genasis's banger "Coco" has been setting the street and clubs on fire lately, and now 2014 XXL Freshman Troy Ave has put out his version of the jam. On Troy Ave's "Coco (Keymix)," the New York native delivers a verse about you guessed it; cooking and selling cocaine. "I ...
Busta Rhymes’ The Conglomerate is steadily rising as hip-hop’s next clique. After Busta’s run with Flipmode Squad, the veteran MC formed The Conglomerate in 2011 with a new set of talent to put on. Besides longtime member J-Doe and buzzing singer Nikki Grier, Long Beach’s own OT Genasis has seen a sudden rise of his profile after delivering the street-ready anthem “Coco” earlier this month. “I thi
There’s plenty of new music to sift through. How do you know what is good or bad? Well, that’s where we come in.
Aside from a busy week of interesting news, there’s always a plethora of dope music that drops. Sometimes it’s out of nowhere, and sometimes it is promoted and released right when we expect it. As rap heads, we are a...
The wait is over. Taylor Gang, Vic Mensa, Snow Tha Product, King Los, Logic and many more participate in this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards cyphers. If you remember last year, it was TDE's cypher that got the most attention, with Kendrick's verse receiving a lot of attention...