It was fitting that the crime fiction masterwork Only Built 4 Cuban Linx had to wait its turn. Method Man and the Ol Dirty Bastard made sense as the first two artists to merit solo albums following the Big Bang of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers and the execution of the group’s Abbot and point guard. The RZA’s master plan: to sign each Clan member to different solo deals at different labels and make each record a variant, […]
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One day and about two hours late for his scheduled interview, Rob49 is feeling pretty at home in Okayplayer’s Williamsburg office. Or maybe he’s just exhausted. “We've been working so hard, as soon as work’s over, I gotta go inside to go to sleep,” he tells me, situated somewhere between our chocolate leather couch and a daydream. He's calm and courteous, but his laconic tone makes it sound like he could fade into sleepy time at any minute. But for […]
Sweet LifeAminé has brought sunshine to the game for over a decade. Armed with a new album and his colorful personality, there are no clouds in his forecast.Words: Georgette ClineEditor’s Note: This story appears in the Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website.Seasons change, but there’s one that stays the same in Aminé’s world. Jumping around onstage with dreads flying and fans screaming around him, the Portland, Ore. native tears through “Arc […]
Released 25 years ago , Big L’s The Big Picture is a triumph of immutable technique. It’s also a consolation prize. A year and a half before it dropped, the rapper born Lamont Coleman was shot and killed only a week after he began the process of signing a deal with Roc-A-Fella Records. Prior to his death, he’d been one of New York’s most renowned underground wordsmiths — a spitter that literally had Nas “scared to death.” There was always […]
In another move in their everlasting beef, Rick Ross offers to get 50 Cent's son, Sire, a puppy to deal with future trauma.Rick Ross Taunts 50 CentOn Wednesday (July 30), Rozay egged on his ongoing beef with 50 by calling out the G-Unit boss in a video shared on Instagram."So, 50 look, I mentioned your youngest son, Bruce Leroy, me taking him fishing for the first time," Ross says in the video below."Me and my buddies, we were talking about little […]