XXL has fired editor-in-chief (and Ego Trip founder) Elliott Wilson, apparently because XXL owner Harris Publications "wants the magazine to go in a different direction in terms of expanding its scope." [AllHipHop]
The rumors of Scratch magazine's demise have been...well, actually the print version is definitely dead. But a Scratch blog is now in the works. [XXL]
The hip-hop magazine Scratch, which was founded in 2004 then relaunched in March 2007 under the name XXL Presents Scratch, will cease publication after its next issue, its 20th. [Scratch]
A post on Still Listen To Gangsta Music pointed us in the direction of a recent XXL feature about the Internet and hip-hop. There were some interesting observations in the piece—such as the lack of a true Internet-nurtured hip-hop star, and the backlash against Diddy's YouTube campaign—but just as the story was getting going, we bumped into this:
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According to Radar Online, 50 Cent was none-too-plussed when he found out that XXL magazine was publishing a profile on his former manager, Chaz "Slim" Williams; apparently, Fiddy was worried that Williams might debunk the rapper's thugged-out backstory:
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