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Original Content Top Tracks Of The Week: June 17-23 Staff picks for the week of June 17th-23rd. By Trevor Smith June 26, 2013
Original Content OVERDUE: Top 7 Artists Who Need to Drop A Project Certain artists like to take their time in between projects to make sure it comes out as the best possible product, but here are a list of artists that seem to be taking a little bit longer than expected. By Maurice Richardson December 20, 2012
Original Content Tupac Photo Gallery: 17 Years Since His Death R.I.P. Tupac Shakur. By Rose Lilah September 13, 2013
Original Content KRS-One's "I Got Next" Turns 26 On the 26th anniversary of KRS-One's "I Got Next," we're looking back on its influence on New York's boom-bap scene. By Caleb Hardy May 24, 2023
Original Content The Best Kanye West Beats From 2006-2010 (#TBT) Revisiting Kanye West's mid-career collaborations with Lupe Fiasco, Nas, Consequence, T.I., & others. By Danny Schwartz August 24, 2017
Sneakers Ranking The Best Mars Blackmon Air Jordan Commercials Discover our ranking of the five most iconic Mars Blackmon and Michael Jordan Nike commercials that revolutionized marketing. By Ben Atkinson January 18, 2026
Original Content Trina's "Amazin’" Turns 13 The Diamond Princess came out swinging on her fifth studio album. By Demi Phillips May 23, 2023
Original Content Chiraq: The Female Perspective In The Drill Movement Katie Got Bandz and Sasha Go Hard's careers flourish amongst the Chicago drill scene and women rappers. By Glennisha Morgan February 24, 2014
Original Content Hottest Songs Of 2014 HNHH selects our Hottest 50 songs of 2014. By Angus Walker December 22, 2014
Original Content Charts Don't Lie: July 4th A look at this week's rap and R&B sales and chart placements. By Trevor Smith July 04, 2015
Original Content Youth Wave: HNHH Talks To Mindless Behavior And Jacob Latimore HNHH caught up with Mindless Behavior and Jacob Latimore during MB's #1 Girl tour. Mindless Behavior has been working tirelessly, having toured with Justin Bieber and Janet Jackson, they now headline their own tour. Jacob Latimore, at a very young age, already has acting credits in addition to his music career with Tyler Perry's "House of Payne", "One Tree Hill" and BET's "Reed Between the Lines". By hnhh August 06, 2012
Original Content Blurred Lines: The Integration Of R&B In Hip-Hop As the evolution of Hip-Hop continues to ascend into higher heights in the music industry, it seems that R&B is slowly but surely losing its soulful edge and assimilating more into the Hip-Hop genre. These days the rappers are "singing", and the singers are trying to rap. The question is, what happened along the way? We do some digging to answer that question. By Audrey N. April 02, 2014