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Fans have expressed concern over the pop star’s social media posts of late, but controversy aside, it appears that Bieber is very tapped in ...
Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion ...
Growing up in the 1990s in Oakland, California, director Ryan Coogler was fueled by his city's magnetic hip-hop scene and ...
Growing up in the 1990s in Oakland, California, director Ryan Coogler was fueled by his city's magnetic hip-hop scene and ...
Popular songs are getting shorter, with Grammy-winning hits and Spotify chart-toppers shrinking in length. But is streaming really to blame? The answer is more complex, with history, genre, and ...
As rap continues to move in chaotic directions, the Atlanta M.C. Ken Carson and the electro-pop singer 2hollis are harnessing ...
With a combination of his hyper-masculine rap flows, aggressive chest-thumping writing, colorful use of Nigerian lingo, and stunning melody-wielding abilities (he calls it Okporoko flows), he tells ...
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 ...
Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Xowié and Crimeapple. For the first time in what feels like a century, the temperature in NYC broke 80 degrees — time to ...