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Original Content JoJo Opens Up About Dealing With Anxiety, The R&B Renaissance & Her Fave Music Of The Year For our "12 Days of Christmas" interviews, we speak with JoJo to discuss just how far she's come since her initial rise to fame in the early 2000s. By Hayley Hynes December 15, 2021
Music Kevin Gates Reveals He & Lil Durk Are Related After Showing FBG Duck Love Kevin Gates says Lil Durk is a "beautiful brother." By Aron A. August 05, 2022
Music NBA YoungBoy, Key Glock & 2 Chainz Bring The Heat To This Week's "Fire Emoji" Update The fire new tracks just keep coming. By Hayley Hynes January 22, 2022
Music Musiq Soulchild & Anthony Hamilton Set For Valentine's Day-Themed "Verzuz" This one is for the R&B lovers and will go down in two weeks. By Erika Marie January 31, 2022
Original Content Hip-Hop's Best Verses: Big Pun's "Twinz" Continuing our new Original Content series "Hip-Hop's Best Verses," Big Pun's opening verse on "Twinz" proved that one deftly delivered bar can be immortalized in rap history. By Mitch Findlay January 27, 2021
Music XXXTentacion Addresses His Controversial IG Post XXXTentacion's IG post of him "hanging himself" was a preview of an upcoming video, not real. By Kevin Goddard August 24, 2017
Music Chris Brown Is One Of The 10 Most Certified Artists In RIAA Singles History Chris Brown is officially one of the most dominant R&B artists ever. By Matt F December 13, 2017
Music Gucci Mane Brings Out A$AP Rocky, Chief Keef, 50 Cent & More At Coachella Gucci kept the surprises coming in Weekend 2. By Trevor Smith April 23, 2017
Music Nelly Responds To St. Lunatics' Ali With Group's History: "Actual Factuals" The rapper has swiftly stepped forward to defend himself after he was accused of abandoning the St. Lunatics. By Erika Marie February 03, 2021
Music Ashanti Shares Steamy Outtakes From Tory Lanez's "Chixtape 5" Cover Shoot Ashanti really blessed Chixtape 5. By Noah C November 16, 2019
Music Beyoncé's "OnlyFans" Shoutout On "Savage" Remix Causes Spike In Site's Traffic After Beyoncé name-dropped "OnlyFans" on the remix of Megan Thee Stallion's "Savage", the content-subscription website saw a major boost in traffic. By Lynn S. May 01, 2020
Music KXNG Crooked Reflects On "Barring" His Way Onto XXL Freshman Cover KXNG Crooked recently took it back to 2007, the year he "bar'd his way" onto the first ever XXL Freshman Cover. By Mitch Findlay August 31, 2020