Nothing can get me to close a YouTube tab faster than a Giannis Antetokounmpo bar. I have no personal agenda against the Milwaukee Bucks’ star big man; in my book, he’s still in the same MVP tier as ...

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Hurricane Wisdom’s name sounds like the result of some deep ...

Florida rapper Hurricane Wisdom believes he’s up next to breakout into the mainstream rap game, and he has good reason to think so. Florida has birthed many of rap’s biggest starts over the last ...

Jada Pinkett Smith is quite the hyphenate. In addition to being the wife of rapper/movie star extraordinaire Will Smith, the mother of their three children, an investor in a cosmetics company (Carol’s ...

Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre’s rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. Nothing can get me ...