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Original Content Who Had The Better Verse: Black Hippy (Group Edition) Vote for the man who has the best verse in each of the Black Hippy posse cuts. By Carl Lamarre May 18, 2015
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: May 16 A look at rap sales and chart placements this week. By Trevor Smith May 16, 2015
Original Content Classic Rotation: Gang Starr's 'Hard To Earn' We revisit Guru and DJ Premier’s 1994 classic "Hard To Earn," released 22 years ago today. By Chris Tart March 08, 2016
Original Content 140 Bars Or Less: Tweets Of The Week (February 6) A look at the funniest, most entertaining, and outrageous tweets from some of the biggest names in hip hop. By Brian Josephs February 06, 2015
Original Content Ice Cream Freestyles: Vote For Your Favorite A recap of some of the best Ice Cream freestyles to date. By Mike De Leon January 16, 2015
Original Content A Sampling Of Hip-Hop From Around The World American dominates the hip-hop thing, but there are some dope non-American rappers too! Here's a sampling from around the globe. By Chris Tart January 14, 2015
Original Content What’s New In Battle Rap (December 26) We keep you up to date on everything going on in battle rap. By Dallas Darden December 26, 2014
Original Content 8 Rappers' Face Tattoo Evolution A quick evolution of face tattoos with some of your favourite artists. By Mike De Leon December 23, 2014
Original Content Hottest Instrumentals Of 2014 The time has come to honor producers that killed it this year, with the Hottest Instrumentals of 2014. There are those that simply make beats, and then there are the chosen few superproducers that craft masterpieces. HotNewHipHop honors the chosen superproducers and artists that have crafted the following tracks--only due to the uber-talented producers were we able to enjoy the following hit records. By Mike Philson December 16, 2014
Original Content The Cash Money Timeline The label that put New Orleans on the map. An empire, not always without dissent, that’s been releasing platinum records for 15 straight years. By Angus Walker November 19, 2014
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: November 9 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah November 09, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: November 2 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah November 02, 2014