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Original Content Staff Picks Playlist (September 3) Our weekly Staff Picks playlist. By Rose Lilah September 03, 2016
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (July 22) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden July 22, 2016
Original Content SoundCloud Staff Picks Playlist (March 31) HNHH's weekly round-up of our favorite SoundCloud tracks of the week. By Angus Walker March 31, 2017
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: May 11 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah May 11, 2014
Original Content Top Tracks: February 6 - February 12 Desiigner tops yet another Top Tracks list dominated by Migos. By Patrick Lyons February 13, 2017
Original Content A Sampling Of Hip-Hop From Around The World American dominates the hip-hop thing, but there are some dope non-American rappers too! Here's a sampling from around the globe. By Chris Tart January 14, 2015
Original Content Word Up: Joint Projects In Hip-Hop Becoming A Trend <p>A recent trend that has surfaced in hip-hop is to do collaborative projects with another artist. I'm not saying that artists haven't done this before, I'm saying that it's become a trend. Arguably two of the greatest, Kanye West & Jay-Z, may have gotten this trend going when they dropped <strong>Watch The Throne</strong>. That was definitely a successful collab that everyone was (and still is, it seems) pumped about. And now there have been rumours of a lot of other joint efforts coming up (and some have already dropped). By Rose Lilah February 23, 2012
Sports Imagining Classic Nike Basketball Sneakers As NFL Cleats Check out this collection of Nike Basketball x NFL cleats. By Kyle Rooney August 25, 2016
Original Content On The Come Up: Vinny Cha$e For this week's On The Come Up, we head to Harlem to learn about Vinny Cha$e, the former cameraman who climbed his way to a multimillion dollar rap deal. By hnhh October 15, 2014
Original Content On The Come Up: A$AP Ant In this week's edition of On The Come Up, we talk to one of the illest young rappers to come out of the DMV in a minute, A$AP Ant. By hnhh September 03, 2014
Original Content Top Tracks: June 13 - June 19 New tracks by Kanye West, Logic, Juicy J, DJ Mustard, Belly, Chief Keef, and Young Thug sneak into this week's Top Tracks list. By Patrick Lyons June 20, 2016
Original Content Could South Florida Become The New Atlanta? Delving into the South's youngest, most exciting scene: South Florida. By Patrick Lyons December 15, 2015