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Original Content How Hip Hop Has Embraced Meme Culture Peak social media era is upon us, gobbling up virality and spitting it back out to mixed (and often controversial) results. By Luke Hinz March 20, 2019
Original Content Rap Beef Is Now "Time Sensitive": A Brief Analysis Do fightin' words really have an expiration date? By Mitch Findlay April 16, 2019
Original Content Kash Doll Details The Nastiest NSFW Photo She's Gotten On "This Or That" Kash Doll chooses Instagram over Twitter, Jordans over Yeezys, and more. By Alex Zidel October 03, 2019
Original Content Quiz: Which Black Hippy Member Are You? Find out if you're more like K. Dot, Groovy Q, Jay Rock or Soul Brotha #2. By Aron A. July 14, 2019
Original Content T.I. & Tiny: Friends And Family Hustle Episode 2 Season 2: Marriage Reconciliation Continues We breakdown everything that happened in last night's "T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle" episode. By E Gadsby April 23, 2019
Original Content The Best Hip-Hop Mashups From The Millennium We run through some of the best mash-ups from the mid-aughts. By Taylor Rubright May 19, 2019
Reviews Pivot Gang "You Can't Sit With Us" Review From out of the depths of Chi-Town's fruitful underground, Pivot Gang have staked their claim for domination on the incredible "You Can't Sit With Us." By Robert Blair April 25, 2019
Original Content Hip Hop's Newest Wave: Tracing The Influences Of Polo G, Lil Tjay, Calboy A generation removed from Chief Keef, the stunning transformation of street rap has revealed something much more than just the next iteration of Chicago drill. By Luke Hinz September 10, 2019
Original Content Happy Birthday Kendrick Lamar: "Pulitizer Kenny" Turns 32 One of hip-hop's all-time best writers gets a little wiser. By Mitch Findlay June 17, 2019
Sports March Madness 2019: Top 10 Players To Watch In The NCAA Tournament Keep an eye out for these 10 players in this year's NCAA Tournament. By Kyle Rooney March 22, 2019
Original Content Chance The Rapper's "Owbum": Everything We Know We've gathered every single morsel of information that we have on Chance The Rapper's forthcoming debut "Owbum." By Robert Blair July 14, 2019
Original Content What's Next For The MCU? Phase four is coming. By Karlton Jahmal June 12, 2019