During JPEGMAFIA‘s rambunctious set at this year’s Governor’s Ball, I watched as a young teenager stumbled out of the crowd, caked in sweat and mud. His glasses were fogged up, tilted at an angle ...
C. Vernon Coleman II Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and ...
Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...