Dom Kennedy

Fall into new music.

Scary hours.

New records to spin.

When it's hot, it's hot.

The soundtrack of 2011.

Bangers from Thugger, Gangsta Gibbs, Spitta Andretti, Drizzy, Future Hendrix, Big K.R.I.T., Tity Boi and more.

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

The tapes you remember and some you forgot about.

XXL takes a look at the rap songs that became wildly popular a long time after they dropped.