It's amazing that it's already been a year since the 2014 XXL Freshman cover, when we unveiled our Dirty Dozen featuring two R&B artists for the first time ever. But now it's time to check the ...

Aug. 11, 1973 was an extraordinary day for hip-hop. It was probably pretty nice out, and DJ Kool Herc threw a boss party that birthed the genre we here at XXL have based our business off of since 1997 ...

XXL released a fresh batch of Freshman freestyles over the course of this past week, following the previous pool of bars from Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa, Rich Homie Quan, and others. It’s still the ...

Beyond debates about whether the round-up represents an accurate snapshot of upcoming rap talent in 2014 though, a statistical break-down of the fortunes of the XXL freshmen past and present throws up ...

FLINT, MI -- Jon Connor has appeared on the Billboard charts, performed on the BET Awards and signed a record deal with rap icon Dr. Dre. Now, he has a chance for his first major magazine cover.