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Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (July 9) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden July 09, 2016
Original Content Vote: Who Had The Best Verse On The Black Hippy "THat Part" Remix? Cast your vote. By Danny Schwartz July 08, 2016
Original Content Staff Picks Playlist (July 8) HNHH Staff shares their weekly favorites on a playlist. By Rose Lilah July 08, 2016
Original Content The 10 Best Hip Hop Protest Songs Since The Trayvon Martin Shooting A recent wave of heavily publicized killings of black men at the hands of law enforcement has sparked some incredible protest music. By Danny Schwartz July 08, 2016
Original Content ScHoolboy Q's Pursuit Of Happiness HNHH sits down with ScHoolboy Q to find out why he's happier than he's ever been in his life. By Danny Schwartz July 08, 2016
Reviews Roy Woods' "Waking At Dawn" (Review) On "Waking at Dawn," Roy Woods strays a bit from his original sound toward the middle of the modern R&B road, and he ends up with his strongest batch of songs yet. By Patrick Lyons July 07, 2016
Sports TBT: Remembering Brandon Jennings' Under Armour Prototype 2 "Double Nickel" One of UA's best basketball sneakers ever. By Kyle Rooney July 07, 2016
Profiles Behind The Beat: Cookin Soul INTERVIEW: Spanish production duo Cookin Soul discusses their working relationships with American artists and the evolution of Spain's hip hop scene. By Danny Schwartz July 07, 2016
Original Content #TBT: Mixtape YG Listen to 10 of YG's best mixtape tracks. By Danny Schwartz July 07, 2016
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: July 6 Our weekly look at hip-hop and r'n'b album sales and chart performance. By Chris Tart July 06, 2016
Original Content Top 5 2 Chainz Features Of 2016 2 Chainz is on his best feature run since 2012. By Trevor Smith July 06, 2016
Original Content Ranking The 2016 XXL Freshman Freestyles We list this year's XXL Freshman freestyles from worst to best. By Patrick Lyons July 05, 2016