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Original Content Top Tracks: May 22 - May 28 21 Savage, Drake, and Young Thug's long-awaited "Issa" tops our chart this week. By Patrick Lyons May 29, 2017
Original Content Quiz: How Well Do You Know Jay Rock's "90059"? How well we're you listening to Jay Rock's 90059 album? By Mike De Leon September 22, 2015
Original Content The Best Hip-Hop & R'n'B Playlist For The Weekend Our FIRE EMOJI playlist is updated and ready to jumpstart your TGIF activities. By Rose Lilah February 09, 2018
Original Content Wiz Khalifa Defines "Blacc Hollywood" Wiz Khalifa defines "Blacc Hollywood," which is the title of his forthcoming album, for HotNewHipHop. By Rose Lilah November 25, 2013
Original Content 5 Producers Defining Hip-Hop Right Now Did your favorite producer make the cut? By Matt F October 25, 2017
Original Content 28 Grams: Hip-Hop Instagram Recap (April 2) Drake, Amber Rose, Big Sean, and Jhene Aiko were active on the 'Gram this week. By Mike De Leon April 02, 2016
Original Content Photo Diary: SXSW We're documenting everything we see and do at SXSW 2016 with this nifty photo diary. By Rose Lilah March 21, 2016
Original Content Lyrics Of The Week: November 15-21 HNHH's Lyrics of the Week breaks down the most noteworthy bars of the past seven days into 8-10 categories that will rotate according to the type of material that drops. By hnhh November 22, 2013
Original Content Top Tracks of The Week: February 10- February 17 A weekly rundown of our top tracks By Alex Galbraith February 17, 2015
Original Content Hip-Hop Vs. Everybody: 10 Rap/Non-Rap Feuds We take a look at 10 incidents when rappers beefed with those outside of the game. By Jake Rohn September 17, 2014
Original Content Cities With Underrated Rap Scenes We know where Jay-Z is from. Same with Kanye and Snoop. But from Virginia to Texas, Maryland to Minnesota, cities around the country have been breeding hip-hop stars for years, but fail to get the recognition of the hip-hop meccas, leaving them in the category of underrated. By Ben Shatzman July 18, 2014
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: June 2 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah June 02, 2013