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Original Content #TBT: J. Dilla While the rest of your friends are posting selfies from a week ago for TBT, we're digging in to the legendary J. Dilla's production catalogue. By Chris Tart October 30, 2014
Original Content Word Up: Joint Projects In Hip-Hop Becoming A Trend <p>A recent trend that has surfaced in hip-hop is to do collaborative projects with another artist. I'm not saying that artists haven't done this before, I'm saying that it's become a trend. Arguably two of the greatest, Kanye West & Jay-Z, may have gotten this trend going when they dropped <strong>Watch The Throne</strong>. That was definitely a successful collab that everyone was (and still is, it seems) pumped about. And now there have been rumours of a lot of other joint efforts coming up (and some have already dropped). By Rose Lilah February 23, 2012
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: June 22 Drake continues his dominance this week, refusing to buckle under the threat of Nick Jonas and Hamilton. By Chris Tart June 22, 2016
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: June 6 to June 12 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 Rihanna talks ‘shit’, Freddie Gibbs puts out a hit, and Ice-T tells folks to put some damn pants on. By Rose Lilah June 17, 2012
Original Content Top Tracks: April 13 - April 19 HNHH's top 10 tracks, according to our Top 100 chart. By Alex Galbraith April 20, 2015
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 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week For Oct. 19 To Oct. 25 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 October 25, 2012
Original Content Underrated Audio: March 5- 11 <p>A day late, but here's three tracks from last week that were lacking in views but good ish nonetheless.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Trouble- Let Them Tell it</strong></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/trouble-atl-let-them-tell-it-produced-by-fly-boy-embedsong.730738.html" style="width:442px;height:52px;border-width:0;" width="442" height="52"></iframe></p> <p>I not only love this beat but the lyrics are on point. If you let them tell it...everybody's fake as fuck. True words from DTE's Trouble.</p> <p><strong>Johnny Polygon- My Shit ></strong></p> By Rose Lilah March 13, 2012
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: November 11th Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah November 11, 2012
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: December 22 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah December 22, 2013
Original Content Quiz: The Year In Hip-Hop Take our quiz on the year in hip-hop. By Mike De Leon January 05, 2016
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (April 3) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden April 03, 2015