The Super Bowl Halftime Show is the NFL’s biggest music moment of the season, but it’s not the only one. Watching football is as much a Thanksgiving staple as turkey and stuffing, so the NFL is making…
If anyone can help rising Philly rapper Skrilla navigate watching his breakout single become a meme, it’s Coi Leray. She’s been a trending topic multiple times over (to the point it was the title of our cover…
The city of Los Angeles and surrounding areas are facing down yet another circumstance of adverse weather, forcing Tyler The Creator to postpone the latest edition of his Camp Flog Gnaw festival. This weekend, an atmospheric river…
Megan Thee Stallion is scheduled to go to trial next week with the blogger she is suing for defamation. According to court documents obtained by XXL on Friday (Nov. 14), Megan’s civil defamation suit against blogger Milagro…
Pusha T has been having a hell of a year, and it looks like it only got better for the family! In a newly uploaded post to Instagram by Virginia Williams, the couple subtly revealed their pregnancy.…
Keeping up with music news and resources like Spotify’s giant and regularly updated New Music Friday playlist are great ways to keep your listening habits from getting stale. Sometimes, though, you need a deeper dive. That’s where…
At 25 years old, Ice Spice is squarely (heh) within the age range of the cohort that grew up on SpongeBob SquarePants (and did!). So, it’s probably a dream come true that she gets to participate in…
Earl Sweatshirt seems happy lately. The LA rapper, once notable for not liking sh*t and never going outside, is all smiles (and outdoors!) in his videos for Live, Laugh, Love, including the latest one, “Gamma.” Set at…
Ken Carson’s latest video appears to suffer from buffering issues, but that isn’t stopping him from having the time of his life in it. The Atlanta rapper apparently shot the “Margiela” video while on tour with his…
Cardi B announces she has given birth to her son with NFL player Stefon Diggs. On Thursday night (Nov. 13), Bardi broke the news on Instagram. In the post, the Bronx, N.Y. rapper’s song, “Hello,” is playing…
Wale just took the longest gap he’s taken before studio albums with a four-year hiatus after Folarin II dropped in 2021. But tonight, he returned with his eighth studio album everything is a lot., which he’s been…
Drake has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over his music video for the track “What Did I Miss?” On Wednesday (Nov. 12), photographer Gabriele Galimberti sued Drizzy in United States District Court for the Central…
Latin music is getting shown a lot of love at the 2026 Grammy Awards. While Bad Bunny continues to make history at the awards, there’s another wave of Latin acts that are ready to take Spanish-language music…
Papoose truly embodies the essence of hip-hop in every aspect. Ahead of his new album, set to be released this month, the Brooklyn-bred mainstay discusses his unwavering passion for the culture, ageism within the rap game, hopping in the booth…
It was previously known that Charli XCX was writing some music for the upcoming Wuthering Heights movie. It turns out her involvement runs deeper than just a few songs, though, as today (November 13), Charli announced an…