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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 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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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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Just shy of 20 tracks of full-on underground New York goodness, the Jamesons-quaffing chaps over at Unkut have just dropped a modern mixtape that’s actually worth listening to. Hosted by the inimitable Doo Wop, and featuring verses and production by Kool G Rap, Capone, Milano, Sid Roams and the recently deceased Killa Sha, let’s just [...]

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Every year the Village Voice poll a huge range of music writers and critics for their top ten favourite albums and singles of the year and then tally the votes up into one mammoth list. This time around, Animal Collective’s ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ took the top long-playing spot and Jay-Z’s ‘Empire State Of Mind’ nabbed [...]

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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 [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
“Any title for a girl you can believe I own it”, rapped Roxanne Shante back in the day, but this week she fessed up to fibbing about having a phD. Call us cynics, but we’re beginning to wonder if she’s really a fully accredited Supreme Highness Almighty Noble Topics Exponent.

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Blowing up in-boxes yesterday, Mystro’s flip of Drake’s ‘Best I Ever Had’ into the cheeky ‘Mess I Ever Had’ has emerged as pretty much the week’s most essential track. Pulled from ‘The Standard’, a project mixed by Shortee Blitz to be available on Monday from here, you can check Mys-Diggy’s version by clicking here. Now [...]