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Original Content Staff Picks Playlist (May 6) HNHH Staff shares their favorite Soundcloud releases of the past seven days. By Rose Lilah May 06, 2016
Original Content Where Is Nipsey Hussle? Tracking His Movements Since "Mailbox Money" Tracing Nipsey Hussle's steps since he released "Mailbox Money" on the last day of 2014. "Victory Lap" on the way... By Danny Schwartz May 05, 2016
Original Content Happy Cinco De Mayo: A Playlist 4 Sippin' It's Cinco de Mayo!! By Danny Schwartz May 05, 2016
Original Content #TBT: Early Beyonce Singles Revisit Beyonce's best singles from "Dangerously in Love," "B'day," and her Destiny's Child days. By Danny Schwartz May 05, 2016
Reviews Review: Drake's "VIEWS" Though there are a few more cringeworthy lyrics and a bit less cohesion than usual for Drake, "VIEWS" is still an album that only he could make. By Patrick Lyons May 04, 2016
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: May 4 Beyoncé and Prince ruled the charts this week. By Chris Tart May 04, 2016
Original Content Vote: What's Your Favorite Drake Project? Cast your vote. By Danny Schwartz May 04, 2016
Original Content 5 Things To Expect On Post Malone's New Mixtape We attended the listening session for Post Malone's upcoming mixtape "August 26." Here's what we learned. By hnhh May 04, 2016
Original Content Who Was Afeni Shakur? Remembering Tupac's Mother RIP Afeni Shakur (1947-2016). By Danny Schwartz May 03, 2016
Original Content Meet Rejjie Snow, Dublin's Rap Ambassador Rejjie Snow on getting into rap through video games, eating lunch with an unmasked DOOM, and his upcoming debut album, "Dear Annie". By Trevor Smith May 03, 2016
Reviews Young Thug Is Refreshingly Weird: A “HiTunes” Tour Review We went there: Young Thug and Lil Yachty’s show at New York City’s Playstation Theater. By Danny Schwartz May 03, 2016
Original Content Everything We Learned From Birdman's HOT 97 Interview Birdman had a lot more to say than in his Breakfast Club interview. By Trevor Smith May 02, 2016