Ryan Lewis

These songs shine bright like a diamond.

The history of hip-hop will always have controversy.

The biggest sales over the last three decades.

Take a look at every winner.

A look at which rappers earned the big win over the years.

50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Fetty Wap, Timbaland, Kid Cudi, B.o.B, Kendrick Lamar and more.

2016 was lit. With a half-decade of retrospection, XXL highlights 104 hip-hop albums turning five in 2021.

XXL takes a look at the rap songs that became wildly popular a long time after they dropped.

XXL takes a look at hip-hop artists with the most YouTube views of all time for a single music video.

Memory lane.

These albums lived on the chart for a minute.

Here we offer our pick on the best album, mixtape or EP released by each Freshman during the course of their entire career to date.