Show & Prove: Bay SwagWords: Georgette Cline Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. It’s a bold choice to bring Harriet Tubman into rap conversations, but Bay Swag is up for the challenge. Inside the offices of his label home, Standard Records…
Nas and DJ Premier have finally announced the title and release date for their long-teased collaborative album: Light-Years is out December 12 via Mass Appeal. See the album cover—featuring a photograph by Danny Hastings and art direction by Mike Lukowski of Mass Appeal—below. Nas and DJ Premier have worked together for the bulk of their…
Mormon Wives’ Jessi Ngatikaura Admits to Affair Amid Separation From Husband Jordan Ngatikaura Jessi Draper Ngatikaura isn’t keeping secrets. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star made a shocking allegation about her castmate Demi Engemann and her husband Bret Engemann after the 30-year-old made unflattering remarks on social media. “Since she wants to be petty…
YouTube is rolling out its 2025 recap listings for YouTube Music subscribers, which, much like Spotify’s popular “Wrapped” yearly summaries, provides an overview of what you listened to in the app. But this time around YouTube has added an extra special element. That’s right, YouTube has added an AI query prompt to this year’s overview,…
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50 Cent has locked in December 2 for the premiere of his Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, a four-part exposé arriving just as Diddy faces the fallout from his criminal conviction and a career in freefall. The timing is deliberate. The series, produced by 50’s G-Unit Film & Television, promises a deep dive into…
London-based jazz fusion trio The Comet Is Coming broke up in 2023, but founding member Dan Leavers — aka Danalogue — has evidently kept himself busy in the meantime. Today he’s sharing his debut solo single “Sonic Hypnosis,” which sees him lean more heavily into the electronic dance elements The Comet Is Coming incorporated into…
Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has a new album. We have a few questions. After a couple of decades as one of his field’s most inventive, talented and in-demand players, he wanted to try something different. So he made Ones & Twos with the idea that listeners could play sides one and two simultaneously. Each of…
50 Cent‘s long-teased Diddy documentary is debuting on Netflix next week. On Tuesday (Nov. 25), the popular streaming service announced the 50 Cent executive-produced documentary series, titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning, will premiere on Dec. 2. The series is directed by Emmy Award-winning director Alexandria Stapleton and will include four 60-minute episodes. Other executive producers…
Sean Combs: The Reckoning, a Netflix docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs’ rise and fall from grace, will arrive on Tuesday, December 2. Long in the works, the series of four hourlong episodes is executive-produced by 50 Cent and directed by Alexandria Stapleton. The series will feature new interviews with “those formerly in his orbit,” according…
