HHC’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson

Going to a dinner party filled with Lost fans but clueless about the series? This week, 88 Keys came to your rescue with a track dedicated to JJ Abram’s ratings juggernaut. Staying on the TV tip, Snoop Dogg appealed for a role in vampire drama True Blood and the RZA promoted his new book by kicking a Six Million Dollar Man jigsaw puzzle off an interviewer’s head − although The Abbot did appear to have the show’s theme tune confused with Emmerdale’s signature sure-shot…

Physical activity was also on the agenda for Masta Ace as he coached youngsters on the gridiron, while, at the other end of the health spectrum, The Clipse and Cam’ron filmed their new video ‘Popular Demand (Popeyes)’ at a self explanatory poultry-based eatery. From the look of the rushes, half of the budget went on Cam’ron’s ample supply of fries – didn’t anyone tell Gilesy it’s rude to rap with your mouth full?

Lil Wayne will have to make do without name brand chicken shacks when he begins a one-year bid for gun possession. Kanye, on the other hand, managed to wangle community service, rather than jail time, for last year’s camera-crushing antics – It was this week’s second bit of good news for Kanye following his re-emergence as a Twittertastic trending topic. Albeit for supposedly dying…

Not content with dropping a new video featuring the ropiest bullet wound effect ever, 50 Cent took shots at Jay-Z’s new Oprah-hugging image, while Cormega (who won’t, to the best of our knowledge, be appearing on Oprah anytime soon) dismissed Drake as a moneyed hip-hop hobbyist. Thankfully, however, those nice Kidz In The Hall were content to simply speak on forthcoming projects like their ‘Land of Make Believe’ album – still no word on whether they’re sampling the 1981 Bucks Fizz banger of the same name, though.