The Dancing With the Stars Season 34 finale is just days away, which means were about to get five new freestyle dances from ...

To round out this season of BARS, we brought in Naarm/Melbourne lyricist, lxrdmc to serve up his finest – hand-picked by A.Girl herself.

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If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

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 ...

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Aminé, Latto, and Rico Nasty. Of this week’s releases, a sizable portion were diss tracks, exchanged between Ray Vaughn and Joey ...

Apple’s Beats brand brought the iconic Beats Pill back from the dead last summer. Now, the company is refreshing the lineup with two new colors for Beats Pill shoppers: Navy Blue and Blush Pink.

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

Beats is one of our go-to brands for wireless earbuds and headphones. You can expect great sound quality from a majority of Beats’ stylish and performative in-ear and over-ear products, including the ...

The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and dissects ...

Doechii won at the 2025 Grammy Awards in the Best Rap Album category for “Alligator Bites Never Heal.” The rap artist took the stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and was emotional by her ...