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Original Content How To Age Gracefully In Hip Hop Youth is wasted on the young. By Luke Hinz July 11, 2019
Original Content Have We Let Young Thug Down? In our quest to re-capture lightning in a bottle, have we become too dismissive of what Young Thug still has to offer? By Narsimha Chintaluri June 18, 2018
Society Because The Internet: How The Consumption Of Hip-Hop Has Changed We use the internet all day every day, but how has our need for instant and constant media consumption affected the music industry, and hip hop in particular? By hnhh August 12, 2014
Original Content I Think 12 Months Crazy: Future's Best Year Yet A year after Future dropped "Monster," we look back on what's been the most successful 12 months of his career. By Patrick Lyons October 28, 2015
TV "The Sopranos" Changed TV: Here's How "The Sopranos" first aired on January 10, 1999. We dive into how it changed the TV landscape. By Sanibel Chai January 09, 2020
Original Content How Awful Records Made Its Mark On Atlanta Hip-Hop Awful Records is one of the most important independent labels in the Atlanta hip-hop scene, jump-starting the careers of Playboi Carti, iLoveMakonnen, KEY! and more. By Gus Fisher February 15, 2019
Original Content Killshot Averted: Why Machine Gun Kelly Is Prospering In 2019 Despite Eminem and his fanbase believing that he'd dealt MGK's career a fatal blow, all signs point to the Cleveland MC capitalizing off his new-found notoriety. By Robert Blair January 08, 2019
Original Content New Orleans Hip-Hop: From Under Water To Underground New Orleans has always been a hub for music, first with Jazz and then more recently with hip hop. NOLA hip hop culture has been around since the '80s and the bounce movement, putting the city on the map for quality hip hop. But the damage of the storm proved to be much stronger than anyone expected. Artists and record companies like Cash Money and No Limit had no choice but to relocate to other states and lay low. Despite the permanent damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on so many lives, the underground hip hop scene has slowly returned to the city in an effort to rebuild the New Orleans spirit. By Rula Al-Nasrawi March 07, 2014
Original Content All The Smoke: Hip Hop’s Capital In The Multibillion Dollar Cannabis Industry Hip-Hop’s claimed its stake in cannabis culture but how has it infiltrated the legal weed economy? B-Real, Wiz Khalifa, Berner, and more detail their journey as cannabis entrepreneurs during the rise of Big Weed corporations. By Aron A. April 20, 2020
Original Content How Bobby Shmurda Helped Propel New York Rap We revisit the legacy of Bobby Shmurda, and all that he helped New York achieve prior to his incarceration. By Jibril Yassin January 24, 2019
Politics Why We Protest & Riot: Perspective From The Front Lines A report from the front lines of the Los Angeles protests, where thousands rallied in the streets seeking justice for George Floyd. By Karlton Jahmal June 02, 2020
Pop Culture We Need To Let Go Of Respectability Politics In The Fight For Black Liberation To the Black community. By Madusa S. June 05, 2020