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This will help you get through the end of the day and into the weekend. Nutso grabs West Coast mastermind Problem and his fellow Diamond Lane Music Group rapper Bad Lucc. It's a fierce, head-nodding track off Nutso's Wester Union, which is due to arrive November 15...

While many rappers claim to be students of the game, few have spent as much time studying their craft as Problem. The Compton-based mind behind "Like Whaat?" and the recent DJ Drama-hosted The Separation mixtape has spent years soaking up insights and lessons from working with some of the West Coats biggest stars—Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, Kurupt—while still keeping his ear tuned to the emergi

Sometimes you just need more champagne. DJ Whoo Kid explores this very specific problem in his new video for "More Champagne," a bleary-eyed club anthem that brings together the Trap Lord himself, A$AP Ferg, with L.A.'s Problem, while Wiz Khalifa provides the sing-song-ey hook...

Problem has released the tour dates for  The Separation Tour. The West Coast MC will begin the seven-stop tour on November 29 in Sacramento, California and end in Pomona, California, December 6. The tour is in support of his latest project, The Situation. ...

Terrace Martin Goes Behind The Boards With Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa And Problem

Twitter definitely erupted with tweets during the 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards. Flooding the social site with commentary surrounding the happenings of the show, many of the rap game's top MCs weighed in surprisingly giving praises to their competitors...

If you haven't seen them yet, or to refresh your memory, you can watch the BET cyphers here. Cypher 7 with Asia Sparks, Bad Lucc, Problem and Astr is only available online. BET Hip-Hop Awards Cyphers Line-Up Cypher 1 – Wax, Rapsody, Emis Killa, Rittz, Jon Connor Cypher 2 – A$AP Ferg, A$AP Twelvy, A$AP Nast, A$AP Ant, A$AP Rocky Cypher 3 – Action Bronson, Star Life Breezy,Travis $cott, Tifanny Fox

BET filmed its Hip-Hop Awards show last night in Atlanta. Though you'll have to wait for the show to air to see the entire coveted "Cypher" segment, the network released its "Digital All Stars Cypher" which consists of Astro, Asia Sparks, Bad Lucc and Problem...

As we wind down a month-long look back over the last 150 issues of XXL and the biggest hip-hop events during that time, some of our friends and supporters hit us up with some-outs that we're sharing in this video. We'd like to thank our readers, fans, haters, staff, rappers, managers, producers, labels, executives, PR people and everyone else for the last 150 issues and in the words of Snoop, &quo

September 13, 1996 is a day that will forever be immortalized in hip-hop history as the day a legend left us. Tupac Shakur was 25 years old at the time of his death 17 years ago, leaving behind a legacy as rich in lyricism as it was in attitude, a man who helped define a sound and who led a movement, who is widely considered one of the best rappers of all time and one of the most engaging personal

August Alsina's buzz seems to be getting bigger with every rapper assisted single he drops. Fresh off the release of his EP, Downtown: Life Under The Gun, the Def Jam signee debuts the DJ Mustard produced "Numb" featuring IAmSu and Problem...

Artist: N.W.A Reviewer: Problem Rating: XXL Anniversary: 25-year Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of XXL Magazine. I was listening to it , but I didn’t know what they were talking about. It was dan...