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Original Content What's The Best Day Of The Week To Drop New Music? Four years on from its inception, we take a look at whether Friday is truly the best day to drop music or if it's detrimental to everyone but a certain level of artist. By Robert Blair May 13, 2019
Original Content 50 Cent's Targets Of The Week: The Gucci Boycott Turns "Super Ugly" 50 Cent stammers out of bounds in the beginning stages of the "Gucci Wars." By Devin Ch February 16, 2019
Original Content Hip-Hop Sequels: The Gift & The Curse Are hip-hop sequels a foregone conclusion? By Mitch Findlay October 23, 2018
Original Content 7 Times Rappers Trolled The World Revisiting some of the great moments in rap troll history. By Danny Schwartz July 28, 2015
Original Content 10 Hottest Mixtapes Of The Summer The title pretty much says it all. HNHH counts down the ten hottest mixtapes of this past summer, just as it comes to a close. By Jon Godfrey September 04, 2012
Original Content Lyrics Of The Week: April 19-25 HNHH's Lyrics of the Week breaks down the most noteworthy bars of the past seven days into ten categories that will rotate according to the type of content that drops. By hnhh April 26, 2013
Original Content What Will The Next Generation Of Rappers Sound Like? What will hip-hop's next-generation sound like? We unpack some of hip-hop's evolution to better understand where it's headed. By Karlton Jahmal March 19, 2018
TV The Best Of Netflix 2019 Ring in the New Year with these critically acclaimed recommendations. By Michael Kaminsky December 25, 2019
Original Content Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter V": Everything You Need To Know Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter V" has been "coming soon" for what feels like an eternity. By Mitch Findlay September 04, 2017
Original Content How Bobby Shmurda Helped Propel New York Rap We revisit the legacy of Bobby Shmurda, and all that he helped New York achieve prior to his incarceration. By Jibril Yassin January 24, 2019
Reviews Review: Skeme's "Ingleworld 3" L.A. Rapper Skeme releases his anger on "Inglewood 3" with ease and effortlessness. Will he scare new fans away, or shock the world? By Maxwell Cavaseno November 17, 2015
Original Content 10 Essential Cousin Stizz Tracks An introduction to Cousin Stizz. By Danny Schwartz August 21, 2016