Over the last 17 years, XXL has proudly and confidently worked to predict the next rap stars to take over hip-hop. New artists burst onto the scene daily with the makings of the next J. Cole, Kendrick ...

There are a few essentials that make a cypher complete. Nas informed the masses it was suede Timbs on his 1994 hit "The World Is Yours." Ab-Soul and Sauce Walka took a page from the Queens rapper's ...

It might be 95 degrees on this sultry summer evening in East Point, but here in the CreateATL outdoor space, much of the heat the crowd is feeling comes from the rapid-fire lyrical craftsmanship that ...

Kevin Hart’s “Chocolate Droppa” alter ego returned for Kai Cenat’s annual AMP House freestyle cypher. On Sunday (July 28), Hart took to Instagram with an image of himself posing with the content ...

For the past few weeks, XXL has been slowly rolling out interviews and freestyles from this year’s Freshman class. While producers continue to upload their own remixes and edits of Desiigner’s ...

The moment unfolded during the season three premiere of Red Bull 1250’s Spiral Freestyle series on Monday (May 12), where Joey, Ab-Soul, and Big Sean traded verses in a cipher originally billed to ...