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Original Content Knockout: Hip Hop's Love of Boxing Whether referencing boxing in their lyrics, or literally contemplating stepping into the ring (50 Cent, Cassidy, Drake vs Chris Brown?), lyrical ferocity and physical ferocity seem to be highly compatible. Here's a look at over a dozen rap songs, highlighting Hip Hop's love of boxing. By Nairi November 15, 2012
Original Content Top Tracks: June 20 - June 26 Some powerful collabs break into our Top Tracks list this week. By Patrick Lyons June 27, 2016
Original Content Crew Love: Awful Records Meet the fifteen members of Atlanta's most idiosyncratic crew, Awful Records. By Patrick Lyons February 09, 2015
Original Content The "Hot Nigga" Freestyles: Vote For Your Favorite Bobby Shmurda's breakout hit, "Hot Nigga," now has attracted freestyles from a number of high-profile artists, making it time to choose your favorite. By Patrick Lyons August 07, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: April 6 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah April 06, 2014
Original Content Top 10: Hottest Songs Of 2014 So Far There's been a ton of dope tracks so far in 2k14, and for today's Top 10 we're running through the best of the best! By hnhh August 20, 2014
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week (July 11-17) A look at the funniest, most entertaining, and outrageous tweets from some of the biggest names in hip hop. By Trevor Smith July 18, 2013
Sports Dissecting Donald Sterling's Racist Tendencies While we waited yesterday for the NBA conference, specifically, Adam Silver, to announce what would be Donald Sterling's punishment for his reprehensible racist remarks, we decided to examine just how deep-rooted his hatred is. This may not come as a surprise. By hnhh April 30, 2014
Original Content Top Tracks: December 5 - December 11 YG and Lil Wayne's surprise collab rockets up our Top Tracks list this week. By Patrick Lyons December 12, 2016
Original Content Can Hip-Hop Stop The Violence In Chicago? Over Memorial Day weekend Chance The Rapper started the #SaveChicago campaign to curb violence in the "Windy City." With more meaningful new artists coming from that region than ever before, can there be a unified movement for peace in the streets of "Chiraq?" By Jake Rohn July 16, 2014
Streetwear 15 Of The Best Rapper Capsule Collections HotNewHipHop gives you a history of the dopest rapper x fashion brand collaborations of the past two years. By Michele Daniels April 28, 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