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By Phillip Mlynar
Blessed with a high-strung squawk of a voice, Danny Brown is the latest off Detroit’s conveyor belt of quality emcees. With his recently-released The Hybrid still gaining momentum, here the D-Town native explains why you shouldn’t send him Dilla-type beats, why he won’t be working with Lady Gaga, and recalls how an LL [...]

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Hailing from South Florida, Dynas has managed to unearth a J Dilla production for the title track to his album, ‘The Apartment’. Click here to check it.

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“Fuck this rap shit – I listen to classical…”
The one and only time I met Baatin was back before the official release of Slum Village’s ‘Fantastic Vol. 2′. It was at a hotel in London, and at 11am on a sun-filled morning Baatin, T3 and myself sat outside on the patio for an interview. I [...]

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Still on the promo trail for his dope ‘A Pipe Dream And A Promise’, Finale recently sat down to talk about his J Dilla tribute track (’Paid Homage’, produced by Flying Lotus). Check the footage here.

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Heartily endorsed by hip-hop’s most ridiculously-prolific Tweet Deck user, ?uestlove, here’s some words of tribute from the Roots man about granola-and-wool-knit-cap-rapper producer Karriem Wiggins.
“Karriem is in a beautiful enviable position,” said the big man with the big ‘fro. “By day he can cook with the best of those in the jazz and he still maintains [...]

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By Richard Watson
Culled from HHC Digital 003’s soon-coming Detroit underground epic, here’s Triple P man Waajeed speaking on Dilla’s legacy…
“It’s a Detroit movement, not just Dilla. Even despite J’s greatness, I really kinda hate this idea of before-Dilla and post-Dilla. There was a movement prior to J and there’s a movement after, and we should [...]

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With the ‘Jay Stay Paid’ launch party going down on June 5th at Herbal, we’re giving HHC Digital readers the chance to win a mini-bag of booty: A copy of the ‘Jay Stay Paid’ CD, House Shoes’s ‘King James’ Dilla tribute mix-CD, Spin Doctor’s ‘You Know What Love Is’, plus a pair of tickets to [...]

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Detroit – the new home of underground rap? Damn right. From paying tribute to the late, great Dilla to introducing the new generation of hardcore composers like Phat Kat and Fat Ray, the Motor City is running things. Now just click here to sign up and cop your five free classics from the D:
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