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Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (November 28) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden November 28, 2014
Original Content On The Come Up: Skywlkr In this week's On The Come Up, we take a break from rappers for one minute to highlight Skywlkr. By hnhh October 29, 2014
Original Content Top 10: Fall Freestyles For this week's Top 10 we're counting down the hottest freestyles of the Fall so far, so fall back. By hnhh October 20, 2014
Original Content Kid Vishis Talks New Album, Royce Da 5'9'', Writing Process EXCLUSIVE: Kid Vishis talks to HNHH about his new album "Timing Is Everything." By Lloyd Jaffe July 26, 2014
Original Content Top 10: Yeezy On The Beat, Hoe We continue our list of Top 10s, this time taking on the best Kanye West production. By hnhh July 11, 2014
Original Content 12 Divergent Samples: Compare & Contrast HNHH takes a look at the same samples in hip-hop creating two drastically different records. By Nikita Rathod June 05, 2014
Original Content Classic Rotation: Big L's "Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous" "Classic Rotation" series revisits classic albums on the anniversary of their release.Today we take a look at Big L's debut album, "Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous", which dropped nineteen years ago on March 28, 1995. By Corvaya Jefrries March 28, 2014
Original Content Underrated Audio: March 22- March 28 HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week. By Rose Lilah March 29, 2014
Original Content Stalking SXSW: Instagram Photo Recap (Part 1) A look at SXSW through the eyes of Instagram. By Mike De Leon March 12, 2014
Original Content Fantasy Street Fights: 20 Rapper Match-Ups [Update: Winners Announced] HNHH pits rapper against rapper for fantasy street fights-- tell us who would kick ass. By Rose Lilah December 09, 2013
Original Content Top 20 Hottest Video Game Soundtracks These are 20 of the best hip-hop soundtracks in gaming history. By Perry Simpson September 24, 2013
Original Content This Happened: Memorable Moments From The 2013 MTV VMAs HNHH takes a look at some of the memorable moments from last night's MTV VMAs, weird and otherwise. By Rose Lilah August 26, 2013