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Original Content Top Tracks: Lil Wayne's "Vizine" Has No Competition Lil Wayne's new offering "Vizine" cruises to #1 in this week's Top Tracks. By Patrick Lyons March 12, 2018
Original Content New Year's Eve Special: The Best Hip-Hop Songs Of December (On Spotify) Check out our roundup of the best hip-hop tracks to hit Spotify in December. By Matt F December 31, 2017
Original Content Kanye West's New Album: Everything We Know Kanye West's new album single-handedly brought hip-hop to Wyoming. By Mitch Findlay March 26, 2018
Original Content Masters Of Cadence: The Art Of "Voice" In Hip-Hop Lyricism and flow are essential tools, but which rappers have truly mastered the art of "voice?" By Mitch Findlay October 02, 2018
Original Content HNHH TIDAL Wave: Meek Mill & Run The Jewels Wake Us Up This week's TIDAL Wave playlist update includes new music from Run The Jewels, Meek Mill, Flatbush Zombies, Conway, Sleepy Hallow, Leon Bridges, and more. By Alex Zidel June 11, 2020
Original Content Royce Da 5'9" Talks Bad Meets Evil Chemistry & The Dark Legacy Of "Death Is Certain" INTERVIEW: Catch up with Royce Da 5'9" before "The Allegory" arrives. By Mitch Findlay January 06, 2020
Original Content Top 3 Things Nicki Minaj Did Right In 2018 Nicki Minaj's rap sheet wasn't all bad this year. By Jibril Yassin December 19, 2018
Original Content Big Sean: Mixtape Mode Versus Album Mode We examine Big Sean two ways: album mode and mixtape mode. By Jibril Yassin April 09, 2019
Original Content Eminem's BET Cypher: 7 Scathing Donald Trump Bashing Bars Eminem's Donald Trump diss was full of memorable lyrics. By Mitch Findlay October 11, 2017
Original Content The Best Hip-Hop & R'n'B Playlist For This Weekend: Fire Emoji We're back with another week of fuego for Fire Emoji. By Rose Lilah February 02, 2018
Original Content Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics Acquires MOG Music Stream Service Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics continues to grow and expand with it's latest acquisition being the music streaming service, MOG. By Rose Lilah July 03, 2012
Original Content 140 Bars: Tweets Of The Week (June 27 - July 3) Funny and/or noteworthy tweets from the past week. By Patrick Lyons July 03, 2015