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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
As the calendar’s most gag-heavy date rolled around again, NORE made his position on April Fools’ Day pranks clear: whoopIe cushions are a timeless classic, but pretending that people’s loved ones have been killed is going too far. Elsewhere, in news that was initially assumed by many to be an [...]

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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 [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Nas dropped a verse airing out Kelis and bemoaning the burden that child/spousal support was placing on his wallet. Sure, 52K a month is a little steep, but if Nasir hadn’t gone mad on that dinner plate-sized QB pendant a few years back, he [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Hard to believe that life could throw up any more cruel surprises for the kids orphaned in the Haiti earthquake tragedy, but it emerged this week that one of them could be getting Trina for a mother. Meanwhile, Russell Simmons defended Wyclef’s much-scrutinised Yele for Haiti charity and there [...]

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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
Photography by Kristina Hill
Send in the clones! This week, MF Doom once again found himself accused of getting an imposter to do his metal-faced bidding at a live show. When HHC Digital reached out to Dumile for a comment, he strenuously denied the allegations − but in a thick Geordie accent, [...]

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HHC does the track-by-track thing to Damon Dash and The Black Keys’ rock-meets-rap project, out at the end of November…
BLAKROC
‘BLAKROC’
(BLAKROC RECORDS)
1. ‘COOCHIE’ FEAT. LUDACRIS & OL’ DIRTY BASTARD
An inspired up-from-the-vault collabo, Luda and the late great Dirt McGirt basically run around town looking for chicks to get involved with. ODB holds down Jeanine (from Queens) [...]

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HHC’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
The Fat Boys are back! Just in time to capitalise on hip-hop’s vogue for, er, skinny jeans and extra-smedium tees, rap’s most rotund crew announced their arrival in the clothing game. HHC Digital was lucky enough to get a peak at the boys’ debut collection and their mustard-stained gusset jeans are [...]

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Culled from the Black Keys-helmed and Damon Dash-pushed BlakRoc project, here’s the Mos Def and Jim Jones collabo ‘Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)’. Dropping at the end of November, the album also features rap chaps RZA, Raekwon, MOP’s Billy Danze, Pharoahe Monch, Q-Tip and some up-from-the-vault ODB business.
Speaking on the project, RZA says, “It [...]

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Fresh from the Chi, Pugs Atomz has dropped another underground sureshot, this time roping one-time Mos Def collaborators Primeridian and Wes Restless into the mix. Click here to check out ‘Get It On’ and don’t forget to download HHC Digital 003 to check his collabo with Brand Nubian’s Sadat X.