HHC Digital’s weekly online news round-up…
By Richard Watson

In a week where the world continued to reminisce over Mike, The Game revealed how Jacko offered to broker a peace treaty between himself and 50 Cent. In full Heal The World mode, Jayceon apologised to Fif’ and released a video for his all-star MJ tribute song featuring his new tattoo of Mr. Jackson. That’s Michael, not Curtis – one step at a time, eh?

By contrast, Prodigy managed to celebrate Mike while cementing his beef with Jay-Z, which if nothing else was an impressive bit of multitasking. The most heartfelt and considered hip-hop testimony came from Phonte, while a grossly insensitive Mase pinned his latest unawaited return on the deceased King of Pop.

Thumbs down, too, to Drake and Lil’ Wayne’s performance at the BET Awards, in which the new colleagues kicked lascivious sex rhymes surrounded by preteen girls (Weezy’s daughter included). That the ceremony was doubling as a Jacko tribute show only made the already bafflingly ill-advised set-piece seem like something out of the BET-baiting The Boondocks.

Faring better on the live front, Bun B kept it real in the field at Glastonbury, while Glasto veteran Jay-Z dropped the video for ‘The Death of Autotune’, featuring cameos from Lyor Cohen, Harvey Keitel, LeBron James and Gary Wilmott’s hair circa 1985. Eminem could be seen poignantly roaming The D in his spiffy new vid, although his buddy Alchemist divulged that Em’s more an evenings-indoors type of guy – Uno how they do!

In lost gem news, September will see the belated release of ‘Kamaal The Abstract’, Q-Tip’s infamously shelved 2001 set. Who knows, maybe we’ll also see a release for Phife Dawg’s buried 2000 LP ‘Ventilation’. What? That one actually came out? Elsewhere, Unkut managed to unearth three lost Show & AG recordings and, bringing things up to date, DJ Spinna and Fresh Daily dropped the dope non-album cut ‘Gotta Go.

Finally, in a week filled with mourning, Redman provided a glimmer of hope by sharing his dreams of becoming a dental hygienist. Time for some Plax, son, as Reggie so memorably (almost) put it back in the day.

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