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 [...]

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 [...]

Click here to download HHC Digital 005, headed up by Rakim talking about Dr Dre’s studio antics, his first meetings with Nas and Jay-Z, Large Professor’s sample game, the day KRS-One put the blame for gangsta rap on him, the original 50 Cent and Killer Ben, the legend of The Rooftop, plus the exact price [...]

HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
No doubt about the week’s biggest, most embarrassing story: Kid Cudi made the shocking discovery that his album features misspelled song titles, then promptly hit up Twitter to brand the cock-ups “rediculous” (oh, the irony) and “unheard of”. Incorrect spelling in hip-hop unheard of? Know your history, Cudi! Also on [...]

HHC Digital’s online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
Photography by Alexander Richter
Dial M for Murda! Perhaps mindful of C Murder’s recent sentencing, Uncle Murda decided to truncate his name to Uncle M so as to avoid negative associations. Oh, and because that way, the M can also stand for ‘ménage a trois’, ‘money’ and ‘marijuana’. Meanwhile, the [...]

HHC Digital’s online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
Just Do It! Two west coast legends were repping for the Swoosh this week, as DJ Quik lent an assist to NBA rap troupe the Hyperizers and Ice Cube supplied a classic track and a comedy cameo for a nifty Paul Rodriguez skate ad. Meanwhile, Snoop was given a [...]

HHC Digital’s weekly online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
Clan In Da Front! Following a sneak peak at Tony Starks’s new Cell Block Z graphic novel, Wu Tang fans were treated to a Lego reconstruction of a classic Wu-banger. Block-rocking stuff (even if Raekwon looks like one of the Polish dockers from season two of The Wire), [...]

HHC Digital’s weekly online rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
In 1994, HHC placed a bet that, by 2010, Memphis horrorcore upstarts Three 6 Mafia would have both an Oscar and their own cookery show. Sorry, Ladbrokes. Meanwhile, in TV news we didn’t prophesise in the nine-fo’, Ice Cube parlayed his Are We There Yet? family film franchise [...]