Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like kwn and Saint Lamaar. With the NBA All-Star tournament, SNL 50 and a potentially pivotal new joint album from Drake and ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Dee Gatti and Mahalia. Compton, it’s a sweep! At last night’s 67th Annual Grammy Awards (Feb. 2), Kendrick Lamar went home ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what’s out and also what’s hot, so XXL decided to make ...

Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur: It’s an interesting mix—Xzibit ... one of the biggest Hip-Hop tours ever. Xzibit: That tour was legendary. Performing at The Tunnel in New York, being on stage ...

RnB or hip hop? It?s a tough one. Maybe even too tough. How do you choose between two of the biggest, best genres?rnrnOne brought us legendary tunes such as Say My Name, Let Me Love You ...

Hip-hop started as the political voice of the disenfranchised African-American youth: from its origins in New York projects, to permeating the sounds of the Deep South and the sunny climes of the ...