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 ...

It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students sit in comfy armchairs listening to hip-hop beats, reciting poems to each other and discussing a mixtape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Hart’s “Chocolate Droppa” alter ego returned for Kai Cenat’s annual AMP House freestyle cypher. On Sunday (July 28), Hart ...

This can be said about a lot of things, but this might be the worst thing ever made and released in the history of the internet. On Monday, Clemson’s athletic department decided to tune in with the ...

The night of the BET Hip-Hop Awards is the closest thing hip-hop has to a cultural holiday, in large part, because of the freestyle “Cyphers” scattered throughout the evening. The Cyphers are modeled ...

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 ...

EXPERIMENTAL FREESTYLE WORKSHOP JUNE 28TH!! 🪩 Cypher Dallas returns to @bathhousedallas ! — This month is dedicated to EXPERIMENTAL movement music taught by Dallas’ very own movement sensei CANVAS ...