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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
Children’s Story: Seemingly intent on outdoing Jim Jones’ recent cameo in the classroom, Swizz Beatz adopted a Bronx arts school − his first move was kitting the music lab out with a load of Bontempi organs damaged during the making of ‘Money, Cash, Hoes’. Meanwhile, when not hyping a [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Hey Mama: As Mother’s Day rolled around, Lil Wayne paid tribute to “every positive matriarch” in the world, which is the least he could do considering the bulk of them are saddled with one of his sprogs. Meanwhile, Dead Prez celebrated the day by dropping a special song [...]

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HHC Digital’s online rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Above The Clouds: In the wake of Guru’s tragic passing, the web was inevitably awash with tributes, the most significant and sincere coming from Guru’s brother Harry and a typically nimble-wristed Premo, who also broke his silence on Guru’s controversial cohort Solar. Dusting off a classic Gang Starr instrumental, [...]

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Paying Tribute To Guru…
By Phillip Mlynar
I never smoked blunts on Van Siclen, but I was fortunate enough to interview Guru.
It was around the release of Gang Starr’s The Ownerz album. It wasn’t an exceptional interview. He wasn’t revelatory with his answers, and he wasn’t stubborn or arrogant either. But interviews are like that: you catch [...]

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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
This week, Eric B got less-than-presidential treatment from Nicki Minaj when he tried to grab a photo op with his daughter’s favourite emcee. Unwilling to accept that he’d simply received one of the gurning gal’s trademark grimaces, Eric jumped on Twitter and told Ms Minaj to “Go fuck yourself.” Actually, [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
And when my pen hits the paper? Aww, shit! In news that promised to revolutionise lyricism, Crooked I made the sensational revelation that his rhymes come out a bit better when he sits down and writes them out first. Okay, so it’s hardly a bombshell, but with Xzibit and Pusha [...]

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At 10.30pm Eastern Standard Time on Sunday night, DJ Premier confirmed that Guru had gone into a cardiac arrest and was currently in a coma. HHC’s thoughts are with him.
Update: On Wednesday, March 3rd he issued the following statement:
“I am doing fine and I am recovering! I’m weak though. Solar is the only person who [...]

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HHC Digital’s online rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
This week, Lupe Fiasco admitted to having philosophical differences with his label: apparently, those bastards don’t view Lupe giving college lectures or upping kids’ self esteem as a legitimate return on their investment. Surely hoping for a return on his investment, meanwhile, Will I Am hit upon the brainwave [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Photography by Kristina Hill
Get money! Ras Kass asked fans to cough up a collective $3,800 for the financing of his new album. A $15 dollar donation gets you, um, a copy of the CD, but for $1000 you also get some scribbled ‘Nature Of The Threat’ lyrics, a couple of [...]