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Start the weekend off right.

Birthdays are never the worst days when it comes to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. See the best events that took place in 2023.

New year, new music.

Hip-hop is sounding off on the slap.

2016 was lit. With a half-decade of retrospection, XXL highlights 104 hip-hop albums turning five in 2021.

History has been made.

Though mixtapes reigned supreme in 2009, these LPs delivered just as much.