The votes are in, and the esteemed XXL Awards board members have declared the winners in 11 categories for the XXL Awards ...

Kendrick Lamar is the music industry favorite this year after earning six wins for the XXL Awards 2025. On Wednesday (Feb. 12 ...

As the first solo hip-hop artist to headline the show, he brought out Samuel L. Jackson to play Uncle Sam and even had a ...

Lamar had “Buried Alive Interlude” all to himself on that record, and even then seemed to contend with some disdain for Drake, though he told XXL at ... at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in 2013 ...

Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

Billy Idol, the Black Crowes and Maná will also appear on the ballot for the first time, alongside Oasis, Joe Cocker, Mariah ...

Roxanne Shanté, who made history as the first solo female MC in hip hop in the 1980s, made history again last week as the ...

Diddy has filed a $100 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Peacock TV, LLC, and Ample LLC for alleged defamatory ...

Also on the ballot for the Class of 2025 are Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Maná, Billy Idol and the White Stripes, among ...

Their American equivalent is the Black Crowes, who mix Southern boogie, stuttering stomp, blues harmonica, glam rock, and ...

Later in 2013, Lamar dissed Drake again during a cipher at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. Drake responded that year in VIBE Magazine by saying he “stood his ground” during that particular Kendrick diss.

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