The biggest music story of 2025 remains, as it has for many years, the very fact of how music is discovered, as streaming monoliths and social-media algorithms continually overtake what we hear and ...

Part II of The Seven Wonders of the Hip-Hop World highlights seven groundbreaking albums that reshaped rap from the 1990s through the 2010s.

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Cash Money joints and Tha Carter III leaks to irresistible beat-jacks, we went through over a thousand Lil Wayne songs—these ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse ...

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 things ...

Despite persistent audio issues, Kendrick Lamar and SZA leave an unforgettable mark on St. Louis following the Grand National ...

For this month’s ‘Made in Africa’ column, we list the music from across the African diaspora we’re taking into the summer ...

Turbulent weather and poor communication almost turned the annual Philly festival into an epic fail. Luckily, its powerhouse ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Rico Nasty, Samara Cyn, and Sexyy Red. With summer ...

Cyn, who’s currently trekking through North America with her “Brand New Teeth” collaborator Smino on the Kountry Kousins Tour ...

In a full-circle moment, Doobie brought aboard Saliva frontman Josey Scott for a rap-rocking revamp of the latter’s “Click ...