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Original Content Samples Of The Week: May 22 A breakdown of the week's hottest tracks by their samples. By Patrick Lyons May 22, 2014
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week (January 30) A look at the funniest, most entertaining, and outrageous tweets from some of the biggest names in hip hop. By Brian Josephs January 30, 2015
Original Content Top Tracks: September 14 - September 20 HNHH's top 10 tracks, according to our Top 100 chart. By Alex Galbraith September 21, 2015
Original Content 28 Grams: Hip-Hop Instagram Recap (Oct.11) HNHH brings you the most dope, weird, interesting, shocking and funny photos posted by hip hop artists on Instagram. By Glennisha Morgan October 11, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: January 18 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah January 18, 2015
Original Content SoundCloud Staff Picks Playlist (January 6) HNHH's weekly round-up of our favorite SoundCloud tracks of the week. By Danny Schwartz January 06, 2017
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (May 29) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden May 29, 2015
Original Content Top 10 Major Label Solo Debuts HNHH examines 10 of the best major label, solo debuts in rap following the acclaimed release of Kendrick Lamar’s “good kid m.A.A.d. city”. By Perry Simpson November 08, 2012
Original Content Underrated Audio: November 6-12 HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week. By Rose Lilah November 13, 2012
Original Content 10 Collaboration Albums We Need We're listing 10 collaboration albums on our hip hop wishlist. By Dallas Darden August 19, 2014
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: May 16 to May 22 Welcome to this week’s ‘140 Bars Or Less’ post where we look at the “best-in tweet” in the world of Hip Hop. This week is loaded with sexual tidbits as Cee Lo Green gets ‘sexy’, Joe Budden tells us how to ‘close the deal’, and Just Blaze offers friendly advice to ‘budding lesbians’. By Rose Lilah May 23, 2012
Original Content What's New In Battle Rap (October 28) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden October 29, 2016