HHC Digital’s online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
Photography by Alexander Richter

Dial M for Murda! Perhaps mindful of C Murder’s recent sentencing, Uncle Murda decided to truncate his name to Uncle M so as to avoid negative associations. Oh, and because that way, the M can also stand for ‘ménage a trois’, ‘money’ and ‘marijuana’. Meanwhile, the latter two Ms, plus heroin, were found by cops in a property leased to Jadakiss, who insisted that his hectic schedule meant he hadn’t been there for months. ’Kiss vowed to keep a closer eye on his tenants in the future − and finally get the leaky tap in the bathroom sorted.

The drama continued with Juelz Santana accused of roughing up her indoors, and 23 people arrested at a Lil’ Wayne concert for crimes involving drugs, booze and swearing in public. New York police have promised to press formal charges as soon as they’ve worked out which of the suspects is the real Weezy.

Tony Yayo revealed that, during his G-Unit phase, Mase expressed a willingness to stab 50’s arch enemy Fat Joe. We’ve all heard Mr Betha talk about spreading God’s message in a manner accessible to the streets, but actually stabbing someone sounds counterproductive. Unlike his new ‘homage’ to Biz Markie, which just sounds shite.

While NORE prepared to run laps around the English Channel (or some such), and Evidence and Alchemist dissected US healthcare, right-wing blowhards Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly got some energetic sparring going with Jay-Z. Rush went in hard but perennial hater O’Reilly is saving the real ether for his forthcoming collabo with Jaz-O and The Game.

It was another busy week for Raekwon, who trailed his forthcoming ‘OB4CL2’ celeb-fest with an intimate rooftop soiree, politely called out no-show Nas, and took today’s young whippersnappers to task for “following one lane”. Certainly, Ja Rule found himself in one lane during a recent drive Down Under. Unfortunately it was the wrong one.