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Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: September 8th to 15th 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 September 17, 2012
Original Content SoundCloud Staff Picks Playlist (January 27) HNHH's weekly round-up of our favorite SoundCloud tracks of the week. By Angus Walker January 28, 2017
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 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 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 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 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week Feb. 23 A look at the funniest, most entertaining, and outrageous tweets from some of the biggest names in hip hop. By Rose Lilah February 23, 2013
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 Charts Don’t Lie: December 14 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah December 14, 2014
Original Content Staff Picks (July 1) HNHH's weekly round-up of our favorite tracks of the week. By Angus Walker July 01, 2016
Original Content Samples Of The Week: November 6 A breakdown of the week's hottest tracks by their samples. By Patrick Lyons November 06, 2014
Original Content EDM/Hip-Hop Crossover Fails Since the EDM explosion started making its way into hip-hop, we have been given some really awful music. By Chris Tart October 28, 2014