XXL Staff

FestivalPass gives you access to hip-hop festivals and events around the world.

Kanye West holds nothing back on Twitter.

Tory Lanez faces a serious gun charge.

Marlo has died in Atlanta.

Obie Trice will serve time behind bars for shooting a man at his home last year.

See all of what Thugger has to say here.

The best of the best.

Terrace Martin's "Pig Feet" with Denzel Curry and more, YG's "FTP," Run The Jewels' "Just" and plenty others.

From "Sicko Mode" to "Sunflower," XXL highlights the most essential Swae Lee collaborations you need to hear.

From Eminem to Playboi Carti to Nicki Minaj and more, here are the rappers with the most dedicated fan bases.

Jadakiss fills in the blanks.

Royce 5'9" also opens up about his Allegory album, working with Eminem on a new Bad Meets Evil project and more.

Ruff Ryders' shining moment.

2 Chainz is following Georgia state officials' decision to reopen businesses.

XXL ranks the best posthumous hip-hop albums of all time.

Propelled by Brooklyn’s drill movement and wave-making upstarts, both the energy and the spotlight are coming back to New York.

REFORM Alliance co-founders Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Robert Kraft, Michael Rubin and more join forces with author Shaka Senghor to send 100,000 surgical masks to prisons.

Big ballin.

Watch 22Gz's pitch for the 2020 XXL Freshman class.

XXL is almost done picking the 2020 Freshman Class. Here's your chance to select someone for the 10th Spot. Vote now!

XXL analyzes the uneven playing field.

Reppin' hip-hop on your chest.

Drake, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and many more.

Memory lane.

And vice versa.

Run it back.

Seeing is believing.

Freestyling vs. written bars

The lyrical Hov in action.

Take XXL’s 10-Year Rewind quiz looking back at the past decade of hip-hop and see what you know.