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Original Content Ice Cream Freestyles: Vote For Your Favorite A recap of some of the best Ice Cream freestyles to date. By Mike De Leon January 16, 2015
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (December 26) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden December 26, 2014
Original Content #TBT Mos Def's Early Classics Yasiin Bey established himself long before he took on that moniker. Let's look in to Mos Def's early classics. By Chris Tart January 01, 2015
Original Content HotNewHipHop's Top Trolls Of 2014 It's that time of the year...shout out all the trolls. By Rose Lilah December 31, 2014
Original Content 8 Rappers' Face Tattoo Evolution A quick evolution of face tattoos with some of your favourite artists. By Mike De Leon December 23, 2014
Original Content Hottest Songs Of 2014 HNHH selects our Hottest 50 songs of 2014. By Angus Walker December 22, 2014
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 Cash Money Timeline The label that put New Orleans on the map. An empire, not always without dissent, that’s been releasing platinum records for 15 straight years. By Angus Walker November 19, 2014
Original Content 10 Frequently Sampled Records In Hip-Hop A break down of records that have been sampled quite often through out hip-hop. By Shirley Ju November 25, 2014
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: November 9 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah November 09, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: November 2 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah November 02, 2014
Original Content 7 Female Rappers From Detroit HNHH takes a look at the Motor City's women in hip hop. By Glennisha Morgan November 24, 2014