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Original Content 10 Rappers Turned Social Activists 10 rappers who have used their platform to affect positive change. By Danny Schwartz July 11, 2016
Original Content Where Is Ab-Soul? Tracking His Movements Since "These Days..." With info scarce on Ab-Soul's follow-up to "These Days..." we trace his steps in the past two years. By Patrick Lyons March 25, 2016
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: January 4 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah January 04, 2015
Original Content The Guwop Effect: A History Of Gucci Mane's Co-Signs A look at the many rappers and producers Gucci Mane has supported over the years. By Trevor Smith February 09, 2015
Original Content Samples Of The Week: January 1 (Fabolous Edition) We highlight some choice samples from Fabolous' "Young OG Project." By Patrick Lyons January 01, 2015
Original Content 10 Essential Soulection Productions Essentials from the white-hot collective, Soulection. By Chris Tart May 08, 2015
Songs Top 10 Songs To Turn Up To For New Year's Eve There are plenty of turn-up songs to put on the playlist heading into the new year. Here, we present you a short list of the musts. By Brian Josephs December 30, 2014
Original Content Gucci Mane's "Trap House" Essentials The best songs from Gucci Mane's "Trap House" series. By Patrick Lyons April 07, 2015
Original Content 10 Essential Chance The Rapper Tracks Chance The Rapper's 10 best songs By Chris Tart March 14, 2015
Original Content #TBT: Talib Kweli Talib gets the TBT treatment this week. By Chris Tart February 19, 2015
Original Content #TBT: Danny Brown Mixtape Cuts Reviewing Danny Brown's older cuts for TBT. By Chris Tart May 07, 2015
Original Content #TBT: Mixtape Khalifa Khalifa-man's mixtapes, revisited for our #TBT series. By Chris Tart April 09, 2015