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Original Content Where Is Isaiah Rashad? Tracking His Movements Since "Cilvia Demo" It's been 29 months since Isaiah Rashad dropped "Cilvia Demo." By Danny Schwartz June 16, 2016 13.0K Views
Original Content Tupac's Life By The Numbers Happy Birthday Pac. Look at a detailed breakdown of his career and life, by the numbers. By Rose Lilah June 16, 2016 13.0K Views
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: June 15 A weekly breakdown of hip-hop and r'n'b album sales. By Chris Tart June 15, 2016 130 Views
Original Content Every Drake Single To Go Platinum Drake is at 15 platinum singles and counting. By Trevor Smith June 15, 2016 35.4K Views
Profiles Behind The Beat: Sonny Digital Sonny Digital is trying to escape the Matrix. By hnhh June 15, 2016 8.1K Views
Original Content Every Chance The Rapper & Vic Mensa Collaboration Chance and Vic have made some great music together. By Trevor Smith June 14, 2016 19.5K Views
Profiles Meet SaveMoney's Joey Purp: A Bracing New Presence In Chicago Rap Joey Purp talks Save Money, bridging divides in Chicago rap, and his long-awaited new project "iiiDrops." By Angus Walker June 14, 2016 5.8K Views
Original Content The Biggest Star From Each XXL Freshman Class Following the reveal of the 2016 Freshman Class, we take a look back at the most successful artists from XXL's 8 previous covers. By Trevor Smith June 13, 2016 88.5K Views
Original Content Top Tracks: June 6 - June 12 There are quite a few holdovers from last week's batch of huge Top Tracks on this new edition. By Patrick Lyons June 13, 2016 165 Views
Original Content 10 Essential Playboi Carti Tracks Get to know A$AP Rocky and Awful Records-affiliated Playboi Carti. By Danny Schwartz June 12, 2016 61.3K Views
Original Content Staff Picks Playlist (June 10) Friday means new Staff Picks playlist. By Rose Lilah June 10, 2016 102 Views
Original Content 5 Things We Want From Tory Lanez's "I Told You" With Tory Lanez officially announcing the title of his debut album, we decided to bring back an edition of "5 Things We Want" for it. By Rose Lilah June 10, 2016 23.4K Views