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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

HHC Digital’s weekly online rap news round-up…
By Richard Watson
Word to G Rap, Riker’s Island hit the hip-hop headlines this week. First, it was reported that during a 2006 in-clink gig, Papoose gave Blood prisoners the coded cue to slash their enemies, opting for Blood hand signals after a proposed medley of ‘Are We Cutting’?’, ‘This [...]

With his own independently released ‘The 3rd World’ album breaking into the Billboard charts and going on to shift over 60,000 copies, rap fire-started Immortal Technique (who, incidentally still owes HHC Digital $20 for a cab…) dropped some sound advice for the hotly-tipped and rubbishly-named Drake (pictured).
“Being independent means having more freedom,” he said addressing [...]