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Rap Report Card From the 1990s Grading Jay-Z, DMX and Others Goes Viral

How'd your favorite rapper score on the rap report card?

Aleia Woods

Here Are 20 Rappers Who Won the Most Awards

The best of the best.

Robby Seabrook III

Rappers Going Platinum in a Pandemic

Shining in the dark.

Robby Seabrook III

DMX Hospitalized After Drug Overdose, Rappers Respond

Hip-hop is here for DMX.

XXL Staff

Here Are Important Hip-Hop Moments in 1995 That Were Pivotal to the Golden Era

Take a stroll through 1995, a pivotal time in rap's golden era, filled with brewing beefs and shook ones, multiplatinum hits and rich regional diversity.

Luke Fox

These 20 Hip-Hop Diss Tracks Are Better Than the Songs They Respond To

These clapbacks are better than the songs they responded to.

Peter A. Berry

Hip-Hop Reacts to the Death of Music Executive Andre Harrell

R.I.P.

C. Vernon Coleman II

25 Things Rappers Are Cooler Than

What's cooler than being cool?

Kai Acevedo

Here’s Every Rapper Eminem Name-Drops on New Album Music to Be Murdered By

Eminem loves rap.

Peter A. Berry

Fat Joe Might Be Executive-Producing LL Cool J’s New Album

Family ties.

Trent Fitzgerald

10 Bad Hip-Hop Songs By Great Rappers

Nobody's perfect.

Preezy

10 of the Worst Movies Starring Rappers

These films were epic fails.

XXL Staff