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Original Content Cities With Underrated Rap Scenes We know where Jay-Z is from. Same with Kanye and Snoop. But from Virginia to Texas, Maryland to Minnesota, cities around the country have been breeding hip-hop stars for years, but fail to get the recognition of the hip-hop meccas, leaving them in the category of underrated. By Ben Shatzman July 18, 2014
Original Content #TBT: Dipset Relive the glory days of Cam'ron and The Diplomats. By Danny Schwartz July 21, 2016
Original Content 28 Grams: Hip-Hop Instagram Recap (April 23) YG, DJ Mustard, and Post Malone came through with some memorable 'Grams this week. By Mike De Leon April 23, 2016
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: February 8 Migos reigns supreme. By Chris Tart February 08, 2017
Original Content Hottest Instrumentals Of 2014 The time has come to honor producers that killed it this year, with the Hottest Instrumentals of 2014. There are those that simply make beats, and then there are the chosen few superproducers that craft masterpieces. HotNewHipHop honors the chosen superproducers and artists that have crafted the following tracks--only due to the uber-talented producers were we able to enjoy the following hit records. By Mike Philson December 16, 2014
Original Content The Best Hip Hop Songs (On Spotify) Of September 2016 The most fire songs to come out this month: Isaiah Rashad, Travis Scott, Mac Miller, Mick Jenkins, Danny Brown, & more. By Danny Schwartz October 03, 2016
Original Content Who Had The Better Verse: Black Hippy (Group Edition) Vote for the man who has the best verse in each of the Black Hippy posse cuts. By Carl Lamarre May 18, 2015
Original Content Classic Rotation: MF Doom & Madlib's "Madvillainy" 10 Years Later Our "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release. Today we take a look at MF Doom & Madlib's classic album, "Madvillainy", which dropped ten years ago, on March 23rd 2004. By TWL March 23, 2014
Original Content Vine Killed The Radio Star: Examining The Platform's Creation Of Rap Phenoms Vine stars are slowly become superstars too. By Nicholas DG May 25, 2015
Original Content Photo Diary: SXSW We're documenting everything we see and do at SXSW 2016 with this nifty photo diary. By Rose Lilah March 21, 2016
Reviews Post Malone & Fetty Wap Prove Their Stardom At Irving Plaza Post & Fetty put on a memorable show that included a surprise appearance from 50 Cent. By Danny Schwartz February 10, 2016
Original Content Hottest Music Videos Of 2013 HNHH counts down the top 25 videos of 2013 By Dhruva Balram deleted December 14, 2013