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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
Finally making the headlines for something positive, DMX was released from jail, where he’d been serving a sentence for reckless driving. Of course, a few hours later he was pulled over by Five-O for a traffic violation. Welcome back, Earl. Meanwhile, X’s fellow wrong ’un Foxy Brown was indicted for [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
Hip-Hop Drunkies: Ably assisted by RA The Rugged Man, Sadat X returned with Season 3 of his indespensible ‘True Wine Connoisseurs’ show. Not content with showing off his cultured palate, hip-hop’s Oz Clarke also dazzled viewers with his knowledge of all things Australian, shouting out the aborigines and, er, Auckland. [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
Stay Strapped: This week, Ice-T took to Twitter to have a go at the rookie rozzer who charged him for driving without a seat-belt. Ooh, it’s like the ‘Cop Killer’ controversy all over again! Foxy Brown, meanwhile, was arrested after allegedly calling her nemesis neighbour a “dirty bitch”, an insult [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
With the audio of Mel Gibson’s racially charged rants at his baby mama saturating the web, sensible folk skipped the acres of broadsheet ‘analysis’ and instead sought out the opinion of rappers. Apparently no strangers to the perils of scantily clad girlfriends, Capone N’ Noreaga issued an admirably measured response, [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Down With The King: This week, there was heartening news for anyone missing hip-hop’s early-’90s fixation with pyramids, pharaohs and all things Egyptian as Kanye West visited the Tutankhamun exhibition in Times Square. Yeezy returned satisfied that, while the late King Tut had the jewelry and interior design games on [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
The Hill that’s real: Rocking the crowd − and an ensemble straight from her local branch of Dr Barnados − Lauryn Hill surfaced at Cali’s Harmony Festival. Also keeping it live, one-time Evil Bastard (copyright The Daily Star) Snoop Dogg made a triumphant return to surprisingly dry UK soil as [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
Down With The King: Just when you thought hip-hop had paid its last tributes to Michael Jackson, Redman came off the wall with his new video − although The King of Pop was surely pirouetting in his grave as Reggie bigged up his own Argyle socks over MJ’s trademark sequinned [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
My posse’s on Broadway: Clearly gunning for the title of Hip-hop’s Andrew Lloyd Webber, RZA announced his desire to bring 36 Chambers to the stage. Great news for hip-hop heads disappointed by Wicked’s extremely loose interpretation of Ice Cube’s oeuvre, and roll on the West End version with Jonathan Wilkes [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
Sole Saliva: This week, it was with justifiable pride that Fat Joe looked back on the most important and influential act of his career: tonguing down the sole of his Air Jordan on MTV Cribs. “If you catch yourself in the mirror licking the bottom of your sneaker… just know [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
Know your history! Nas copped to his lyrical mix-up of Alexander The Great and Napoleon on “I Can,” and while his justification basically amounted to ‘they’re essentially the same person’, he did admit that AZ’s habit of ignoring his input during the history round of their local pub quiz now [...]