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HHC Digital’s Rap Round-Up…
By Richard Watson
With the audio of Mel Gibson’s racially charged rants at his baby mama saturating the web, sensible folk skipped the acres of broadsheet ‘analysis’ and instead sought out the opinion of rappers. Apparently no strangers to the perils of scantily clad girlfriends, Capone N’ Noreaga issued an admirably measured response, [...]

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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’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Proving that today’s rappers aren’t oblivious to the big issues, Wale posed the question, ‘What if Tupac had a Twitter account?’ Next week, Wale speculates on how the advent of TiVo recording technology combined with the explosion of cookery shows would have impacted Biggie’s life, and what Big Pun would have [...]

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HHC’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
They Reminisce Over Jacko: Live in London, Pete Rock & CL Smooth offered a unique tribute to MJ, with Corey unleashing some distinctly British expletives on a fan unwilling to observe five seconds’ silence for The King of Pop. Afterwards, the Caramel King reflected that, while he enjoyed his latest trip [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
With the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors celebrating Def Jam’s 25th anniversary, KRS-One offered a more balanced opinion on the label’s legacy, naming it single-handedly responsible for hip-hop’s destruction. Which we don’t think was an actual award. In tangentially related news, it emerged that Def Jam alumnus Foxy Brown may be the [...]

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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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Photography by Doug Coombe, Lynn Upson
Having just released possibly 2009’s greatest conceptual rap album that stars two cats from Detroit taking a trip to the ’80s in a very Prince Paul-sounding way – and having most definitely released 2009’s greatest conceptual rap album to feature a recurring role for Dan Marino – HHC Digital checked [...]

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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:
Black Milk [...]