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This is kind of a big deal... This month’s issue of  XXL  celebrates Beats Electronics with the first ever magazine cover featuring Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Eminem. Beats By Dre initially took over the industry with their headphones six years ago. Now Beats is at it again with the brand’s newest endeavor, Beats Music, a music streaming service which focuses on the curation of playlists by genre experts (including  XXL ). Eminem, one of the biggest artists under Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s direction, launched the promo for his most recent solo album  The Marshall Mathers LP 2  with a Beats Music commercial, kicking off the campaign for the service, which is now available in the iTunes store.   In the magazine, Dre— celebrating his birthday today —Jimmy and Em reflect on the impact they have made on music of all genres though the Beats brand and how the streaming service could very well change the way fans consume their music.   Beside...

In the outtakes of Drake's XXL interview he discussed his beef with Common , why he generally felt offended and what he thinks prompted the Chicago rapper to come after him. I think you impressed a lot of people when you went after Common. A lot of rap fans didn’t think you could get him. There is a bunch of Common diehards who would never let you utter the words “Drake got” anything in front of them. I felt really hurt man. I felt like some injustice was done to me in a sense of we’re talking about Common, we’re talking a guy whose music I enjoy, a guy who I had never met, a guy who I never conversed with at that point. We’re talking about the guy outside the hearing impaired girl’s window with the sign cards with the love songs and he’s coming at me for being soft? That hurt me. I told him that. I’m like, “Man, you’re supposed to embrace what I’m doing. I’m balancing real rap with girl records with club records. I’m just trying to give people music to live with and for y...

From XXL ... ON THE NEW ALBUM I remember coming into this year thinking, “How am I going to cut through all these people and shine?” I’ve never been part of a year when so many legends are dropping projects. How am I going to be seen? I’m going to be like the kid waving in the background in the photo with all of his tall relatives. And, I guess, those were my initial thoughts, and not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some of the stuff that has come out this year, but it didn’t pan out the way I thought it was going to. I think I am going for it, to really establish what are murmurs or things being said quietly, “Um, I think that Drake might actually…” On September 17 th  I want people to be like, “Oh, we were right.” ON HIS IMAGE Do I think that if I didn’t have, for lack of a better term, a unique look about me, if I was from somewhere in America and if I hadn’t been on a kids TV show [ Degrassi: The Next Generation ], would I be as famous? I don’t know, man. Honestly, I ...

The Amerikaz Most Wanted  tour kicks off July 9 with T.I. , Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz . You can pick up a copy of the July/Aug XXL issue June 18.

Too easy.... Nah f**k it, why is A.I. dressed like he's still stuck in the 90s? And how did his name get tossed around pot to even make the list of possible people to cover this mag? Must be a Reebok thing. I'm not even going to address the fact that Tyga looks like a used tampon...I'm not. Anywho, this is the first mash up issue of XXL mag and Slam mag featuring a hip hop and basketball theme hitting stands next week.