This past weekend was incredibly packed in terms of live music. Oasis finally reunited. So did Blackpink, and so did Black Sabbath. Amid all that, Lana Del Rey had a couple shows at London’s iconic Wembley Stadium,…
TRUTH ON BEING AN XXL FRESHMAN: “When my label called me with that sh*t, I was jumping around like a little kid. I’m damn near finna punch a hole in the wall, I’m so turnt. I was…
Drake dives into beef, betrayal and backstabbing on his new track “What Did I Miss?” a surprise release on July 4th. Drake’s New Song Is a Message to the Ones Who Turned on Him While the celebration…
Apple Music launched almost exactly ten years ago now, and in the decade since, it has become a culture-defining streaming platform. Users have logged billions of plays over the years, and now Apple Music has celebrated that…
Trippie Redd was arrested while attempting to board a flight to France at Miami International Airport this week. Trippie Redd Arrested While Trying to Leave the Country On Thursday (July 3), the 26-year-old rapper was on his way…
NBA Youngboy is out to play once again, and this time, he has Playboi Carti as his partner in crime. Out with a new album titled Make America Slime Again, the rapper has managed to release a collaboration with…
Eminem is not a rapper that holds out on the most outlandish of references. Last time, it was “like a shepherd having s*x with his sheep, f*****g absurd,” and now, he’s back with more. On the recently…
JID has a new album, God Does Like Ugly, coming this August. Before that, though, he’s putting a spin on the deluxe editions that tend to follow albums with GDLU Preluxe, a mixtape that he’s releasing before…
The 2025 XXL Freshman Class is officially in session. Each rap star on the rise enters the proverbial hallways of hip-hop history with their own superlative style. Rappers like Loe Shimmy, Lazer Dim 700 and Nino Paid bring a new wave of…
This weekend, Essence Magazine’s annual music festival will once again take over New Orleans. Under the banner of We are Made Like This, this year’s fest boasts GloRilla, Muni Long, and NOLA native Master P on its…
It’s time to get more acquainted with the leaders of the new school that make up the 2025 XXL Freshman Class. After Samara Cyn, Ray Vaughn, YTB Fatt, BabyChiefDoIt, 1900Rugrat, Gelo, Loe Shimmy, Eem Triplin, Lazer Dim 700, Nino Paid and Ian all…
INFLUENCED BY: “In terms of music, I would say definitely Future. I haven’t really heard a bad song from [Future]. His songwriting is just something that you really can’t help but admire. When I found out that…
For her Short N’ Sweet tour, Sabrina Carpenter partnered with Plus1, a nonprofit that per their website has programs including “a variety of offerings for artists and brands to engage in social impact in the ways that…
“JID a scribbler, he silly with it” — a bar that continues to hold true release after release for the Atlanta rapper, who has recently released two songs back to back. Merely a day after JID released…