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Original Content Underrated Audio: July 5- July 11 HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week. By Rose Lilah July 12, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: May 18 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah May 19, 2014
Original Content 20 Most Fashionable Rappers Through The Decades Fashion is one of the most important elements of hip-hop culture, because in addition to the music, it is another form of self-expression. We count down 20 fashionable MCs by decade. By Layne Weiss April 07, 2014
Original Content HNHH Presents Seagram Gin's 2015 Calendar Model Search Allow us to present the Seagram's Gin 2015 Calendar Model Search. View the gallery of last year's calendar models above. By hnhh April 21, 2014
Original Content 10 Albums That Should've Happened HotNewHipHop follows up "Albums That Need To Happen" by breaking down 10 albums that should have happened but, for whatever reason, did not. From Lil Kim and Foxy Brown's "Thelma & Louise," to Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana's "I Can't Feel My Face," and more. By Chris Richburg November 12, 2013
Original Content Lyrics Of The Week: September 6-12 HNHH's Lyrics of the Week breaks down the most noteworthy bars of the past seven days into 8-10 categories that will rotate according to the type of content that drops. By hnhh September 13, 2013
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: July 14 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah July 14, 2013
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: May 26 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah May 26, 2013
Original Content Lyrics Of The Week: April 26 - May 2 HNHH's Lyrics of the Week breaks down the most noteworthy bars of the past seven days into ten categories that will rotate according to the type of content that drops. By hnhh May 04, 2013
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week From Nov. 09 To Nov. 15 Dissecting the funniest, most entertaining, and outrageous tweets from some of the biggest names in rap who are on Twitter. Twitter is intriguing to fans because it offers an un-buffered forum into the minds of some of your favorite artists. The material is often raw and unfiltered, and lucky for us, most of these guys have no filter. By Rose Lilah November 16, 2012
Original Content 10 Best Rappers Who Act HNHH finds the ten best rappers-turned-actors. By Jon Godfrey September 28, 2012
Reviews Benny The Butcher "Tana Talk 4" Review Ahead of his first project on Def Jam, Benny The Butcher takes a gritty and independent victory lap on "Tana Talk 4." By Robert Blair March 15, 2022