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Original Content Top Tracks Of The Week: May 25- May 31 A rundown of the top of our Top 100 chart. By Alex Galbraith June 01, 2015
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: May 9 An in-depth look at rap sales and chart placements this week. By Trevor Smith May 09, 2015
Original Content Hey Mama: Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa & Others Reveal Their First Big Purchase For Their Mom Here's how 13 rappers showed their mom love after they found success. Happy Mother's Day y'all. By Danny Schwartz May 08, 2016
Profiles Meet THEY.: Mysterious R&B Duo INTERVIEW: Overnight R&B success THEY. discuss their debut EP "Nu Religion," life on tour with Bryson Tiller, and what they have in store next... By Danny Schwartz April 12, 2016
Original Content J. Cole Follows Master P's Lead In His Professional Basketball Pursuits Fresh from J. Cole's stint on the Rwanda Patriots, we take a look at the parallels between his basketball career and the pioneering, late 90s NBA run of Master P. By Robert Blair May 28, 2021
Original Content Rise & Grind: GRIP Explains "IDFT?!", Connecting With Eminem & More GRIP opens up about his new album "I Died For This?!", signing with Eminem's Shady Records, and the reason the album format is the backbone of music. By Mitch Findlay September 13, 2021
Original Content A Conversation With Ghostface Killah: 15 Years Of "Fishscale" On the fifteenth anniversary of "Fishscale," Ghostface Killah reflects on his creative process, the art of storytelling, connecting with MF DOOM, and the death of the album as we know it. By Mitch Findlay March 28, 2021
Original Content Lakeyah Talks Tee Grizzley Love, Being Slept-On In Milwaukee & Signing To QC The Milwaukee native went from slam poetry to chasing her Quality Control Music dreams to, now, being one of the label's newest and brightest signees. By Erika Marie December 15, 2021
Original Content Flo Milli On How "Beef FloMix" Changed Her Life, Being An Early Fan Of Nicki Minaj & Rico Nasty Flo Milli details her early life in Mobile, Alabama and being inspired by both Nicki Minaj and Rico Nasty in a brand new instalment of "On The Come Up." By Alex Zidel October 15, 2020
Original Content Dr. Dre's "Detox" & Other Mythical Albums Like Dr. Dre's "Detox," these are albums that will never be. By Robert Blair February 28, 2020
Original Content 5 North Carolina Players From The Underground HotNewHipHop breaks down 5 different North Carolina artists on the come-up that you should know about. By Rose Lilah June 23, 2014
Original Content Blurred Lines: The Integration Of R&B In Hip-Hop As the evolution of Hip-Hop continues to ascend into higher heights in the music industry, it seems that R&B is slowly but surely losing its soulful edge and assimilating more into the Hip-Hop genre. These days the rappers are "singing", and the singers are trying to rap. The question is, what happened along the way? We do some digging to answer that question. By Audrey N. April 02, 2014