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Rappers are hitting the road heavy this year.

Coming to a city and town near you.

Paul Wall and DJ.Fresh sit with XXL to discuss their joint album, The Tonite Show, and more.

XXL's weekly playlist.

Here's the hip-hop album schedule for July.

The debate rages on.

Ken's friends and peers give him a round of applause.

Pump up the volume.

’Tis the season.

The Lonestar Luchador is all things Texas hip-hop.

Fresh fire on Friday the 13th.

The best beats across five decades of hip-hop.

These rhymers have mastered their lanes.

Seeing how different rappers looked when they first got in the game and now can be quite surprising.

Fans can't believe it.

Some of the most notable hip-hop trends that have gone mainstream.

Listen to the hottest No. 1 Billboard songs from past and current hip-hop artists.

End of the year bangers.

Freshest and newest rap projects to drop this week.

The music is unstoppable.

The heat keeps rollin' in.

Fall into some new music.

2016 was lit. With a half-decade of retrospection, XXL highlights 104 hip-hop albums turning five in 2021.

As promised, new music drops this week.

More new heat.

Summer just got hotter.

Here are the best albums from 2005.

From Lil Wayne's Tha Carter II to 50 Cent's The Massacre, 2005 gave birth to plenty of respected rap releases.

Catch up.

Here are the new releases of the week.