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By Chloe McCloskey
Celebrating The Almighty DJ Craze…
Germany’s DJ David may have been the first DMC competitor to take the title in two successive years back in 1990 and 1991, but seven years later something unprecedented happened: DJ Craze burst out of Miami and put a lock on the world title for three years in a [...]

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The next installment of DJ Spinna’s behind-the-scenes video drops for his ‘Sonic Smash’ album has dropped, this time with him talking about working with Little Brother bod Phonte for the track ‘Guaranteed’. Click here to peep it.

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Counting down the launch to his ‘Sonic Smash’ album release on July 21st, DJ Spinna has started to release ‘viral listening sessions’ to the ‘net. Kicking things off for the first one he goes back to those fabled indie rap days to drop insights on The Jigmastas, while also speaking on reuniting with Krym for [...]

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HHC Digital’s weekly online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
In a week where the world continued to reminisce over Mike, The Game revealed how Jacko offered to broker a peace treaty between himself and 50 Cent. In full Heal The World mode, Jayceon apologised to Fif’ and released a video for his all-star MJ tribute song featuring [...]

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With Fresh Daily’s ‘The Gorgeous Killer’ and DJ Spinna’s ‘Sonic Smash’ set to drop in July and August respectively, here’s a non-album collabo between the two, titled ‘Gotta Go’. Click here to grab it.

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“You’re talking to a man that has like 50,000 records in his collection!” laughs the venerable DJ Spinna when asked to name-check a few classic and recent favourite albums. With his own ‘Sonic Smash’ set promising a return to the “straight boom-bap” side of his production, here’s his cornerstones…
STEVIE WONDER ‘SONGS IN THE KEY OF [...]

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Photography by Kristina Hill
Download the new issue of HHC Digital by clicking here. Contents include:
Black Milk and the Detroit underground movement
M.O.P. reminiscing over the making of their studio albums, plus talking about life on Roc-A-Fella and G-Unit
Kyza chatting about pints of vodka and girls drinking Stella
Tanya Morgan talking about Brooklynati
DJ Spinna diggin’ through his vinyl [...]

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FRESH DAILY
‘THE GORGEOUS KILLER’
(HIGH WATER)
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In a world where cats are trying painfully hard to keep up with the next flash-in-the-shit-pan trend, it’s a treat to hear someone who rocks a flow that pays strong homage to the great Masta Ace, and just like the original Slaughtahouse man, Brooklyn’s Fresh Daily does enough on this 13 [...]

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Culled from DJ Spinna’s soon-coming ‘Sonic Smash’ set (out June 30th), here’s the first single, ‘Lyrics Is Back’ featuring the heavy tones of Torae. Click here to cop it, and check the bonus behind-the-scenes video here. Then check back in on Monday to pick up the latest issue of HHC Digital, featuring that man Spinna [...]

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Full rummage through his crates coming in HHC Digital 003, but as a teaser here’s DJ Spinna’s favourite rap picks in the album stakes…
DIAMOND DISTRICT ‘IN THE RUFF’
“This is Oddisee and it’s an incredible record. To me, this is really defining what hip-hop from New York should be – and they’re from Baltimore! They represent [...]