Hip Hop
Just a day after it looked like Usher and Chris Brown were not speaking at all, the people around them are working to fix it. TMZ reports that both artists’ teams are now working overtime behind the scenes to mend the friendship — a sharp turn from the day before, when TMZ reported the two […]
The appeal in the Tupac Shakur murder case is officially on the books — but the man who filed it now has no lawyer to argue it. The Nevada Supreme Court has accepted Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ appeal of his first-degree murder conviction, according to court records viewed by XXL. His attorney, Michael Sanft, submitted […]
It is officially over — at least on Chrisean Rock’s face. On Tuesday, Chrisean sat in the tattoo chair and finally covered up the massive portrait of Blueface inked on her cheek, streaming the whole six-hour session live on Kick. The reality star-turned-boxer had the portrait buried under flower designs — a dark rose now […]
The Coachella 2027 lineup is officially out — and SZA is headed to the top of the bill. The festival announced its lineup on Tuesday, with SZA set to headline the third day of the two-weekend event, alongside fellow headliners Dua Lipa and Tame Impala. The bill also includes Madonna, Zara Larsson, Steve Lacy, Don […]
After thirty years, one of hip-hop’s most mythologized interviews is finally coming out of the vault. Netflix announced on Wednesday that Angie Martinez is releasing her never-before-heard interview with Tupac Shakur in a four-part video podcast event, “The Tupac Tapes with Angie Martinez,” premiering November 27. The conversation was recorded in Los Angeles just three […]
A Dallas jury has found Yella Beezy guilty of capital murder in the 2020 killing of fellow rapper Mo3 — and the verdict came down exactly six years to the day Mo3 lost his life. On Wednesday, November 11, after about two weeks of testimony and roughly three and a half hours of deliberation, the […]
After a decade in court, Birdman just scored a major legal win — a Georgia judge has thrown him out of the lawsuit filed by Lil Wayne’s tour bus driver over the 2015 shooting of Wayne’s tour buses. TMZ reports the judge issued the order on Tuesday, dismissing Birdman — real name Bryan Williams — […]
Big news for everybody who runs their music through YouTube — your streams are about to count again where it matters most. YouTube and Billboard are back together. YouTube’s Global Head of Music, Lyor Cohen, announced in a blog post on Monday that the platform’s streaming metrics will return to the Billboard charts beginning in […]
Kash Doll is asking a question a lot of us have asked in a bad relationship — who is really the prize here? — and she brought a Wu-Tang legend along to argue it out on screen. The Detroit rapper dropped her new single “I’m The Prize,” featuring R&B singer Ebony Riley, on November 6, […]
Quando Rondo is a free man — and he is already back to work. Bureau of Prisons records show the Savannah rapper was released from federal custody on November 2, closing out five months in a halfway house after serving a 15-month bid at Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Rondo kept a low […]
Ye keeps rewriting his own record book. On Saturday night, the Chicago superstar sold out AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, drawing 83,132 fans — the largest crowd ever for a rap concert in the United States — and pulling in more than $18 million in revenue, according to promoter IKON Presents and figures shared with […]
Adrien Broner is back home and recovering after a frightening Saturday night in Los Angeles — and his friend Deen The Great is done mincing words about it. The former four-division world champion was found slumped over and seemingly unresponsive backstage at a Skilla Baby concert at The Belasco on Saturday night, and the footage […]
