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Cop Your XXL Merch Now Maiya The Don is a true student of the game. She represents the hip-hop legacy of Brooklyn to the fullest with a powerful pen game and pristine punchlines. Maiya’s first taste of hip-hop mainstream success arrived in the form of her 2022 Sisqo-sampled track “Telfy.” The confidence-inducing anthem has raked in over 7 million streams and Spotify. Her debut mixtape, Hot Commodity, has been met with cosigns from the likes of Lil’ Kim, Ty Dolla $ign and Mariah Carey, among others. The BK MC comes through XXL‘s The Break Live for an interview about her new single “Mean It,” be...
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Cop Your XXL Merch Now BossMan Dlow‘s time to shine is now. His impeccable swagger, conversational cadence and booming baritone voice have allowed his breakthrough hit “Get In With Me” to amass 16 million Spotify streams in the two months since its January release and earned him his first spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The Port Salerno, Fla. spitter pulls up to XXL‘s The Break: Live to chop it up about Florida rap, the hilarious opening scene in his new music video for “Finesse (Remix)” featuring GloRilla and much more. Watch the interview below. Age: 25 Reppin’: Port Salerno, Fl...
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Cop Your XXL Merch Now At 23 years old, Reuben Vincent’s passion for hip-hop is reminiscent of a bygone era. While his socially conscious lyrics are packed with intellect and masterful wordplay, Reuben’s musical prowess extends beyond the bars through equally skillful production. As the product of two parents who fled their native Liberia amid the country’s first civil war, Reuben Vincent was raised in Charlotte, N.C. Spending his early childhood immersed in West African culture, his older cousins introduced Reuben to hip-hop through the music of 1990’s greats like The Notorious B.I.G. and Tup...
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Cop Your XXL Merch Now It’s not often that a rising artist in the hip-hop space has both the skills to rhyme and produce, but that’s exactly the type of time Cash Cobain is currently on. Born and raised in the birthplace of hip-hop, music has always been a big part of Cash Cobain’s life. The Bronx native, 25, began making beats in his early teens by experimenting with old-school samples in digital audio workstations such as FL Studio. By 2013, he decided to expand upon his craft by trying his hand at rapping over his own production and gained early momentum by uploading his music directly to S...
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Cop Your XXL Merch Now Wizz Havinn is one of the names that comes to mind whenever a conversation kicks off about the best up-and-coming rappers in Florida’s increasingly buzzing hip-hop scene. The proud Tallahassee native combines a true hustler’s ambition with a laidback flow dripping with requisite flexing. As a kid, Wizz Havinn, 23, was raised by his mother with fond memories of playing basketball. By the time he was a teenager, aspirations of securing the bag by any means necessary led to various stints in juvenile detention facilities and further incarceration as a young adult. When Wizz...
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Zeddy Will is putting a different spin on the music coming out of one of the most storied hip-hop locations in the game. The 22-year-old Queens native calls home to the famous Queensbridge housing development that legends like Nas made popular through his music. Zeddy has a style and energy that can be seen as a bit of a contrast compared to Nas and Mobb Deep, who came up in the same neighborhood decades before Zeddy. While the music representing Queensbridge in the past has traditionally been gritty and dark in nature, Zeddy’s music and social media content is lighthearted, hilarious and simp...
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Bobbi LaNea and Folayan of Flyana Boss are mainstream superstars in the making. The continuously rising hip-hop duo delivers their multifaceted artistry with the same natural grace as the icon who inspired their name, Diana Ross. Before first linking up as students at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, Calif., Bobbi LaNea and Folayan were raised in their respective home cities of Detroit and Dallas with parallel dreams of making it big. The two incredibly creative minds each recall their entertainment business aspirations as something that was always pure destiny. The first time Flyana Boss...
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