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Original Content Stop Saying "Conscious Rap" Why the term "conscious rap" should be eradicated from hip hop. By Patrick Lyons December 18, 2015
Original Content East Coast Vs. West Coast: Revisited Almost 20 years after the height of the East and West Coast rivalry, we take a look at where things stand now for the two pioneering sides of the culture. By hnhh August 27, 2014
Original Content Crew Love: Dungeon Family Get familiar with the entire roster of the Dungeon Family. By Dharmic X May 12, 2014
Original Content Exclusive Interview: Grand Hustle Production Duo Nard and B Hard at W-e-r-k, Grand Hustle's multi-platinum producers Nard and B speak to HotNewHipHop for an exclusive interview. By Ahshanti Shine May 16, 2012
Original Content How Hip-Hop Has Permeated Pop Culture From what was initially a neighbourhood-based cultural practice, Hip-Hop has permeated societal culture in an unprecedented way. Hip-Hop extended it's boundaries before breaking them down entirely to accept any and everyone; gender, economic class and race extinguished as the genre's influence washed over society and in a way, unified a diverse group of people. By Dhruva Balram deleted March 22, 2014
Original Content The 15 Ugliest Fake Sneakers We've Seen This Summer Proceed with caution. By Kyle Rooney August 12, 2016
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 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
Original Content 25 Shopping References In Rap For Black Friday HNHH gathers 25 different references to shopping in rap, for today's annual day of shopping. By Rose Lilah November 29, 2013
Original Content Top Tracks Of The Week: Sept 2-10 Staff picks for the week of Spetember 2nd to 8th. By Trevor Smith September 10, 2013
Original Content Vote: Who Should Win Best Rap Album At The 2017 Grammys? Cast your vote. By Danny Schwartz December 06, 2016
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