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Reviews Review: Iamsu!'s "Sincerely Yours" Iamsu!'s debut album "Sincerely Yours" is regrettably lacklustre in comparison to his previous work. By hnhh May 16, 2014
Original Content 15 Classic Hip-Hop Debuts HotNewHipHop takes a look at 15 classic debut albums in the rap game. By Nikita Rathod July 07, 2014
Reviews Review: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's "Piñata" The product of a street-hardened G from Indiana and a blunted beatsmith from Cali joining forces. By Patrick Lyons March 19, 2014
Reviews Review: Bishop Nehru & MF DOOM's "NehruvianDOOM" Bishop Nehru & MF DOOM craft the fall's first great hip-hop album. By Lloyd Jaffe October 07, 2014
Reviews Review: RiFF RAFF's "NEON iCON" RiFF RAFF bucks conventions, gets weird on "NEON iCON." By Patrick Lyons June 24, 2014
Original Content Running The Jewels & The Game: An Argument For Killer Mike As The Top MC Of The Past Three Years <p>Ask most Hip-Hop fans who’s been running the rap game the past three years, and the answers would mostly be the same; Kendrick Lamar…Drake…maybe some J. Cole. Even with somewhat of an agreement, there’s no science to this. There’s no exact formula of determining who is on top. Is it record sales? Some would say that, and that would justify the belief that Kendrick, Drake, or Cole are on top of the game. Using that logic however would leave justification of our culture up to whoever is buying music…whoever. By Bruce Smith January 15, 2015
Original Content Trunk Bangers We bringing you 13 essential trunk banging records. By Newton Stern August 27, 2014
Original Content Fight Night: 10 Songs To Make You Rowdy "This kind of music, use it, and you get amped to do shit." -Eminem By Shirley Ju December 05, 2014
Reviews Jay Rock's "Redemption" (Review) Jay Rock shrugs off the delays that plagued his early career and settles into another quietly amazing album. By Patrick Lyons June 20, 2018
Original Content Top 25 Hip-Hop & R&B Albums Of 2018 So Far We count down some of the best hip-hop and r'n'b albums we've heard in 2018, so far. By HNHH Staff June 22, 2018
Tech What Is Shadow Banning? How The Instagram Practice Can Affect An Artist In an era where social media is one of an artist's most pivotal tools, we look at how Instagram's penchant for "shadow banning" rappers may have a detrimental effect on their livelihoods. By Robert Blair October 02, 2019
Sneakers Russell Westbrook's Top 10 Jordan Why Not Zer0.2 PEs A look back at Westbrook's best Jordan Why Not Zer0.2 PEs of the season. By Kyle Rooney April 17, 2019