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Original Content The Year Of Drake Although he didn't even release "Views From The 6," Drake had the game in a chokehold this year. By Patrick Lyons December 09, 2015
Original Content GoldLink Is On A Mission To Make You Dance Get to know the most exciting rapper coming out of DC. By Danny Schwartz December 07, 2015
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week (April 25 - May 1) The top tweets of the week. By Patrick Lyons May 01, 2015
Profiles Meet Little Simz: UK's Fast-Rising Female Voice The UK's Little Simz discusses her debut album and her rapidly increasing popularity stateside. By Patrick Lyons September 02, 2015
Original Content Happy Birthday Lil B: His Most Based Moments Looking back at some of Lil B's finest moments over the years. By Danny Schwartz August 17, 2015
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (June 26) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden June 26, 2015
Original Content TBT: Early T-Pain Throwback to T-Pain's early days, collaborating with Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and more on various singles. By Chris Tart October 22, 2015
Profiles Behind The Beat: Southside Southside of 808 Mafia recently received three production credits on Future and Drake's "What A Time To Be Alive." Now we go Behind the Beat with him, as he discusses getting his start as a producer, blowing up with Waka Flocka Flame and crafting Future's "DS2." By Patrick Lyons September 23, 2015
Original Content Silly Sosa: 14 Projects Chief Keef Still Hasn't Released "Peacocks, Peacoats, Flavor & Paper" isn't the only Chief Keef project we're waiting for. By Matt Aceto November 12, 2015
Original Content Hottest 50 Songs Of 2015 Presenting HNHH's Hottest 50 Songs of 2015. By Angus Walker December 21, 2015
Profiles Behind The Beat: Murda Beatz For the latest edition of Behind the Beat, we talk to the 21-year-old Canadian trap sensation known as Murda Beatz, who's managed to become a fixture in Atlanta trap. By Angus Walker January 20, 2016
Original Content The Best Of Wiz Khalifa's "Cabin Fever" Series Ten highlights from Wiz Khalifa's "Cabin Fever" series. By Patrick Lyons December 17, 2015