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Reviews Roy Woods' "Waking At Dawn" (Review) On "Waking at Dawn," Roy Woods strays a bit from his original sound toward the middle of the modern R&B road, and he ends up with his strongest batch of songs yet. By Patrick Lyons July 07, 2016 23.7K Views
Original Content Quiz: How Well Do You Know Gucci Mane? How much do you know about Gucci Mane? By Mike De Leon October 19, 2015 13.1K Views
Original Content The Vince Staples Theory We take a look at the mindset of Vince Staples. By Chris Tart November 03, 2015 16.2K Views
Original Content Hip-Hop Albums That Represent Major Cities We take a look at a variety hip-hop albums that work as soundtracks for specific cities. By Scott Glaysher August 18, 2015 19.9K Views
Original Content Gucci Mane's "Trap House" Essentials The best songs from Gucci Mane's "Trap House" series. By Patrick Lyons April 07, 2015 11.4K Views
Original Content The Best Possible Acronyms For Kanye West's "SWISH" With no more "So Help Me God," our users created some "SWISH" acronyms, and our staff proceeded to do the same. Can you see any of these on the cover of Kanye's next album? By Angus Walker May 04, 2015 38.6K Views
Original Content 5 Reasons "Dark Sky Paradise" Will Be Big Sean's Best Album Yet Big Sean seems poised to break into the upper echelon of rap with "Dark Sky Paradise". By Patrick Lyons February 11, 2015 42.2K Views
Reviews Review: Waka Flocka Flame's "Re-Up" Mixtape Waka Flocka Flame's newest mixtape "Re-Up" is one more step closer to his much-anticipated album release for "Flockaveli 2," set to come out later this year. By Rula Al-Nasrawi March 26, 2014 14.0K Views
Original Content HNHH's Top 8 Most Disappointing Projects of 2012 HNHH looks back at eight of 2012's most disappointing projects, be they mixtapes or albums. Take note that in some cases, projects were deemed disappointing not because of quality or commercial success, but based on their failure to follow through with expectations. By Perry Simpson December 19, 2012 355 Views
Original Content It's Yo Birthday: Jay-Z's Top Tracks Jay-Z turns 43 today and in appreciation of one of the greatest rappers of all time, we take a look at 20 of his best tracks By Dhruva Balram deleted December 04, 2012 18.6K Views
Original Content Wiz Khalifa Covers Complex, Explains Album Delay The Taylor Gang general lands the upcoming Complex cover. By Rose Lilah September 13, 2012 367 Views
Original Content Underrated Audio: February 26- March 4 HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week. By Rose Lilah March 05, 2013 83 Views