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Original Content Blurred Lines: The Integration Of R&B In Hip-Hop As the evolution of Hip-Hop continues to ascend into higher heights in the music industry, it seems that R&B is slowly but surely losing its soulful edge and assimilating more into the Hip-Hop genre. These days the rappers are "singing", and the singers are trying to rap. The question is, what happened along the way? We do some digging to answer that question. By Audrey N. April 02, 2014
Original Content 4th Of July Playlist We put together some recent summer jams to get your Independence Day party started. By Trevor Smith July 04, 2016
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (December 25) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden December 26, 2015
Original Content Ray J Taking Shots At Kanye West & Kim K With New Cover Art & Single "I Hit It First"? Ray J looks to be taking shots at Kanye West & Kim Kardashian with his new song. By Rose Lilah April 06, 2013
Original Content 28 Grams: Hip Hop Instagram Recap (Oct 24-30) Looking back at some of the best hip hop Instagram posts of the week. By Danny Schwartz October 31, 2015
Original Content 140 Bars: Top Tweets Of The Week (July 25 - 31) The top tweets of this crazy week. By Patrick Lyons July 31, 2015
Original Content 10 Songs You Need From Chris Brown's Massive "Before The Party" Mixtape We've rounded up the 10 tracks you definitely need from the 34-song "Before the Party" mixtape. By Nicholas DG November 30, 2015
Reviews Review: Snoop Dogg's "Bush" Snoop Dogg & Pharrell Williams collaborate for a funky new LP By Chris Tart May 15, 2015
Original Content #TBT: OutKast's Early Deep Cuts We look at OutKast's early, deep cuts for this week's TBT selection. By Chris Tart July 16, 2015
Original Content Hottest R&B Albums Of 2014 These were our favorite R&B projects of the year. By Mike Philson December 27, 2014
Original Content Most Disappointing Projects Of 2014 To continue our #HOTNEW14 series, we’re counting down the 10 most disappointing projects of the year. By Matt Aceto December 23, 2014
Original Content 10 Essential Diplo Productions Diplo's fattest productions. By Chris Tart March 07, 2015