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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
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
Pop champagne like we won The Championship: Proving that his bank account goes considerably deeper than his knowledge of English football, Diddy threw his name into the bidding for beleaguered Crystal Palace. And lest you think that Mr Combs simply wants to bring Sean John tracksuits to Selhurst Park, apparently [...]

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To celebrate today’s Blu-Ray and DVD release of the 50 Cent-starring Dead Man Running, HHC Digital has five swag bags to give away to five lucky readers, with each containing a swanky Blu-Ray copy of the film, Fif’s The 50th Law book, plus a t-shirt.
In the movie 50 Cent plays an infamous New York loan [...]

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And now for something completely different… Billed as the world’s first ever piano-mixtape, one time electro-clash bod Chilly Gonzalez has just dropped ‘The Pianist’. Including new takes on Fif’s ‘Many Men’, The Clipse’s ‘Grindin” and Weezy’s ‘A Milli’, you can check it by clicking here.

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Never one to avoid either the spotlight or the caps lock button, Kanye West blogged against critics of the pelt-centric ensembles he and his lass have been flossing lately, and insisted that, post-Obama, black folks are denying their love of fur coats, fried chicken and red leather. “I CAN HEAR [...]

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HHC’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
“It was all a dream/I used to skim through Time magazine…” After a year of internet grinding, Raekwon saw ‘OB4CL2’ nab the number seven spot on Time’s Top Ten albums of 2009. Rae toasted the news with Capone and Noreaga, whose own reunion set was voted ninth best album of the [...]

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HHC’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Photography by Kristina Hill
Send in the clones! This week, MF Doom once again found himself accused of getting an imposter to do his metal-faced bidding at a live show. When HHC Digital reached out to Dumile for a comment, he strenuously denied the allegations − but in a thick Geordie accent, [...]

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HHC’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Proving that today’s rappers aren’t oblivious to the big issues, Wale posed the question, ‘What if Tupac had a Twitter account?’ Next week, Wale speculates on how the advent of TiVo recording technology combined with the explosion of cookery shows would have impacted Biggie’s life, and what Big Pun would have [...]