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February 28, 2020
How Kendrick Lamar Plays the Long Game
February 26, 2020
Lizzo, Chance the Rapper, and Polarizing Fanbases
February 24, 2020
February 21, 2020
How Travis Scott Growth Hacked Hip-Hop
February 19, 2020
Why Caffeine Needs More Than a Partnership with Drake
February 14, 2020
Why Hamilton Partnered with Disney
February 13, 2020
Hip-Hop Can Only Help the Oscars So Much
February 10, 2020
How to Best Monetize Hip-Hop Podcasts
February 7, 2020
One Year Full-Time on Trapital!
February 6, 2020
Why Apple Should Spinoff Beats by Dre
January 29, 2020
A Complicated Legacy: How Drake’s OVO Sound Will Influence Hip-Hop
January 23, 2020
So you want to be a music mogul: The future of fantasy record labels
January 16, 2020
The Hip-Hop Touring Business is Broken
January 9, 2020
December 18, 2019
Why Hip-Hop’s Lean Problem is Deeply Rooted
December 11, 2019
Maybach Music Group Didn’t Live Up to its Potential
December 5, 2019
The Grammy Sales Bump, Spotify Awards, Free Speech in Moroccan Hip-Hop
November 25, 2019
Jay Z’s Cell Phone Partnership Strategy, Explained
November 21, 2019
Tencent is Playing a Different Game, Russ Stays On-Brand With New Book
November 18, 2019
The Globalization of Hip-Hop, Part II
November 13, 2019
The Globalization of Hip-Hop, Part I
November 6, 2019
How 50 Cent and Lil’ Wayne’s Mixtapes Disrupted Hip-Hop
October 31, 2019
Beef with Hip-Hop Media, Lizzo’s Lawsuits, Spotify’s ‘Pay-for-Play’
October 25, 2019
The 10 Most Influential Hip-Hop Business Moves of the 2010s
October 24, 2019
Universal Music Group and China, Regulating TikTok, Tyga’s New Deal
October 18, 2019
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