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Original Content The Best Hip-Hop Songs Of October (On Spotify) With October turning into November, we look back at the month's best additions to our Fire Emoji playlist. By Matt F November 05, 2017
Original Content Top Tracks: January 16 - January 22 J. Cole's new loosie beats out Drake for the #1 spot in this week's Top Tracks. By Patrick Lyons January 23, 2017
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: September 22 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah September 22, 2013
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 Tekashi 6ix9ine: Be Honest, Do You Miss Him? Are you over the rainbow? By Mitch Findlay December 18, 2018
Original Content #TBT: Chris Brown's Smash Singles Looking back at some of Chris Brown's biggest singles. By Chris Tart November 26, 2015
Original Content Top Five Reasons Common Should Be In Your Top Five We give you five reasons you should add Common to your top five. By Bruce Smith February 03, 2015
Pop Culture Instagram Gallery: Erica Banks Reveling In "Buss It" Success The 1501 queen is certainly enjoying her rise to fame. By hnhh January 23, 2021
Original Content Ten Essential Ratking Tracks An introduction to New York trio Ratking. By Chris Tart December 13, 2015
Original Content VOTE: Who Won 2016? Choose From Drake, Chance The Rapper, Young Thug & More Which rapper should be named champion of 2016? By Angus Walker December 29, 2016
Original Content Migos "Culture III" Is A Low-Key High-Stakes Project For The Trio With Migos' upcoming album "Culture III" dropping Friday, it feels like the album is arriving at an interesting period in the group's career. By Mitch Findlay June 09, 2021
Pop Culture "The American Society Of Magical Negroes" Trailer Sparks Social Media Pushback The upcoming satirical comedy is a play on the Spike Lee-coined film trope of "Magical Negroes"—and it has social media talking. By Erika Marie December 18, 2023