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Original Content Samples Of The Week: January 29 (Lupe Fiasco Edition) This edition of Samples Of The Week breaks down the samples in Lupe Fiasco's "Tetsuo & Youth." By Patrick Lyons January 29, 2015
Original Content The Evolution Of Chief Keef Tracing the ups and downs of Chief Keef's unconventional career. By Patrick Lyons February 19, 2015
Original Content Top Tracks Of The Week: January 21- January 26 A rundown of the week's most popular tracks By Alex Galbraith January 27, 2015
Reviews Review: Lil Wayne's "Sorry 4 The Wait 2" "S4TW2" is better than Weezy's recent output, but, what does that mean? By Alex Galbraith January 27, 2015
Original Content Hottest R&B Albums Of 2014 These were our favorite R&B projects of the year. By Mike Philson December 27, 2014
Reviews Review: Young Thug's "Barter 6" Will Thugger's new mixtape-album tip the scales in his favor, finally? Probably not. By Nicholas DG April 22, 2015
Original Content 6 Ls Birdman Took In 2015 2015 has not been good to Birdman. By Danny Schwartz July 14, 2015
Original Content Bawse Moves: How Rick Ross Shifted Focus In 2015 Three ways Rick Ross is operating differently this year than he was in 2014. By Patrick Lyons October 06, 2015
Original Content 10 Grime Artists You Need To Know Get to know 10 artists who are taking grime music to the next level. By Chris Tart August 19, 2015
Original Content 7 Artists We Discovered On "Compton" A brief run-down of seven artists that Dr. Dre put on with his new album, "Compton." By Chris Tart August 10, 2015
Original Content 5 Things We Want From Drake's "Views From The 6" Drake's rumored to be dropping "Views From The Six" in just over two months, so here's what we're looking for when it arrives. By Patrick Lyons July 13, 2015
Original Content 10 Things To Do On 4/20 How to celebrate the highest of holidays. By Nicholas DG April 20, 2015