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Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: June 29 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah June 29, 2014
Original Content HNHH's Top 8 Most Disappointing Projects of 2012 HNHH looks back at eight of 2012's most disappointing projects, be they mixtapes or albums. Take note that in some cases, projects were deemed disappointing not because of quality or commercial success, but based on their failure to follow through with expectations. By Perry Simpson December 19, 2012
Original Content Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics Acquires MOG Music Stream Service Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics continues to grow and expand with it's latest acquisition being the music streaming service, MOG. By Rose Lilah July 03, 2012
Original Content Ticket Giveaway: Ab-Soul's "These Days..." Tour In NYC We're giving away one pair of tickets for Ab-Soul's show in NYC on October 6th! By Rose Lilah September 30, 2014
Original Content Lien With It: Artists Who Got Caught Not Paying Their Taxes Which rappers have incurred the wrath of Uncle Sam in the past two years? By Danny Schwartz November 14, 2016
Original Content Crew Love: Quality Control Get familiar with Atlanta's hottest, fastest-growing crew, Quality Control, in this week's "Crew Love" By Asia Burris November 24, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: September 21 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah September 21, 2014
Original Content Worst Hip-Hop Tattoos Tattoos have become a pretty popular trend among adolescents and adults in today’s culture, especially within the rap and hip-hop community. However, not everyone is capable of picking an aesthetically pleasing tattoo. By Vanessa Oswald June 12, 2014
Original Content The Top 10 Beefs Of 2015 (So Far) Here are the ten beefs that have made for the biggest news stories this year. By Patrick Lyons June 23, 2015
Reviews YG's "Red Friday" (Review) YG's "Red Friday" tape is nothing more than a collection of decent "Still Brazy" B-sides. By Patrick Lyons November 30, 2016
Original Content Raekwon Discusses How The Internet Changed Hip-Hop While filming the video for "Violation," Raekwon discusses how the internet affected hip-hop. By hnhh January 23, 2014
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Bow Wow's Twitter Held Hostage Welcome to this weeks’Special edition of “140 Bars Or Less: Bow Wow’s Twitter Held Hostage”. The goal of this column is to bring you the most entertaining and outrageous tweets of the week from the world of hip hop, and this week nothing was more outrageous than when a 19 year old aspiring “rapper” hacked Bow Wow’s Twitter. By Rose Lilah August 23, 2012