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A look at all of the stars who have graced XXL Freshman covers over the years.

From 50 Cent to Cardi B and more, here's a look at who's really running things in their lyrics.

Hot off the presses.

What's the holdup?

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

A decade of dominance.

What if?

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Hip-hop is taking over, one project at a time.

With a crazy year of tweets, Instagram posts and status updates behind us, here are 10 rappers who experienced social media meltdowns in 2016.

ScHoolboy Q, Mac Miller and others are featured.

Ab-Soul and Dreamville rapper Bas linked up again for a brand new banger.

Southpaw boxers are similar in nature to rappers who also perform while utilizing unorthodox flows and rhymes

From PRhyme's broken heads to FKA twigs' powerful portrait, R&B and hip-hop is covered. Check out The Boombox's Best Album Covers of 2014.

We reveal some of your favorite rappers' not-so-cool-sounding legal names.

Tinashe, Ab-Soul, 2 Chainz and Drake win the fan votes in the Best Music of Summer 2014 competition.

Statik Selektah never seems to have a problem assembling a great lineup of artists for his records. That trend continues on his latest single, 'Alarm Clock,' featuring three of hip-hop's brightest young stars: Ab-Soul, Jon Connor and Logic.

"Soulo eating now. Tell 'em Puff said so." Find out what Diddy has to do with Ab-Soul's 'Hunnid Stax' video.

In this week's The Boombox Battle, songs from Ab-Soul and RiFF Raff compete for the win.

Find out how much Ab-Soul and G-Eazy's new albums sold in their first week on the charts.

In this week's The Boombox Battle, songs from Ab-Soul and Troy Ave compete for the win.

Ab-Soul can't get an ex-lover off his mind in his new video for 'Closure.'

Ab-Soul unveils the tracklist to his upcoming album, 'These Days.' The TDE rapper also debuted a new track from the collection as well.

Ab-Soul taps Schoolboy Q for the Kenny Beats-produced 'Hunnid Stax,' a song off his new solo LP, 'These Days...'

We’re six months into 2014 and some of hip-hop and R&B’s most valuable players are releasing new projects.

The Black Lip Pastor calls on fellow lyrical wizards Action Bronson and Asaad for the lead single off his upcoming album, 'These Days.'

Maybach Music Group is heating things up in the studio with T.D.E. Wale shares that he's working on a new song with Black Hippy's Ab-Soul.

So it all comes down to this, the final round of our Underground Kings voted bracket competition.
We started with 32 of the dopest and most renowned indie rap acts from coast to coast; the contenders were legends who'd been doing this for decades and new jacks who redefined what it meant to be a rap …

Black Hippy -- Compton's own Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock -- "is ready to rule the hip-hop world" according to Respect magazine.
The Top Dawg Entertainment crew covers the publication's Vol. 4 Issue 3, which hits newsstands on April 30...

Ab-Soul drops his first visual off his new mixtape 'ControlSystem'.  These Artists will def. get your mind racing with deep Lyrics and animated trippy imagery shot by APLUSfilmz. You can download this mixtape on Datpiff .