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Original Content Belly Recorded “Double Up” Verse As A Birthday Gift To Nipsey Hussle EXCLUSIVE: Belly reflects on losing Nipsey Hussle and how his verse on "Double Up" landed on "Victory Lap." By Aron A. May 24, 2023
Pop Culture Alec Baldwin "Rust" Shooting: The Legal War As updates unfold about Baldwin and the death of Halyna Hutchins, we're detailing exactly what happened that fateful day. By Catherine Perry April 25, 2023
Reviews Ari Lennox "age/sex/location" Review The Dreamville songbird fuses grown folks music with her own R&B-Soul stylings. By Erika Marie September 14, 2022
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 #TBT Mos Def's Early Classics Yasiin Bey established himself long before he took on that moniker. Let's look in to Mos Def's early classics. By Chris Tart January 01, 2015
Original Content HotNewHipHop's Top Trolls Of 2014 It's that time of the year...shout out all the trolls. By Rose Lilah December 31, 2014
Original Content Mastermind Vs. Hood Billionaire Breaking down the pros and cons of Rick Ross' two releases in 2014. By Matt Aceto December 03, 2014
Original Content Samples Of The Week: November 6 A breakdown of the week's hottest tracks by their samples. By Patrick Lyons November 06, 2014
Original Content 8 Hilariously Awful Rap Battles For every "8 Mile" moment, there's about 239 God-awful YouTube battle rap videos that we love to crack up while watching. By Chris Tart October 17, 2014
Original Content Underrated Audio: September 27- October 3 HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week. By Rose Lilah October 04, 2014
Original Content Ten Rappers Reimagined as Superheroes We imagine what superpowers Nicki Minaj, 50 Cent, Master P, Jay Z and more rappers would have. By Jake Rohn September 23, 2014
Original Content Charts Don’t Lie: September 14 Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts. By Rose Lilah September 14, 2014