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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 Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Making mad money off the book this year: In news that surely had George Pelecanos and Richard Price reeling, the official synopsis for Styles P’s debut novel Invincible hit the web. Pinero’s literary opus concerns a record store owner who, in jail for shooting two stick-up kids, receives a message [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Pop champagne like we won The Championship: Proving that his bank account goes considerably deeper than his knowledge of English football, Diddy threw his name into the bidding for beleaguered Crystal Palace. And lest you think that Mr Combs simply wants to bring Sean John tracksuits to Selhurst Park, apparently [...]

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HHC Digital’s rap round-up…
By Richard Watson
Never one to avoid either the spotlight or the caps lock button, Kanye West blogged against critics of the pelt-centric ensembles he and his lass have been flossing lately, and insisted that, post-Obama, black folks are denying their love of fur coats, fried chicken and red leather. “I CAN HEAR [...]

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More random MP3 downloads from the murky corners of the in-box – click titles to cop…
Apathy feat. B-Real & Celph Titled ‘Shoot First’
KRS-One & Buckshot feat. Mary J Blige ‘The Way I Live’
Jaz-O feat. The Game ‘Gangstas Ride’
Heltah Skeltah feat. Trigger The Gambler & Smooth Da Hustler ‘Transformers’
Hanz Solo ‘Life Goes On’
Jozeemo ‘Call Me’
Metabeats [...]

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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 [...]

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HHC Digital’s online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
“He’ll hit you/Get the picture, Kodak man?” In Croatia, Jay-Z’s bodyguard scuffled with a paparazzo, while back on home soil habitual Jigga haters The Game and Jaz-O joined forces for the week’s most economical dis record and Jim Jones accused Jigga of jacking his splash – which thankfully isn’t [...]

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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), [...]

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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 [...]

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HHC Digital’s weekly online news round-up…
By Richard Watson
Who got the juice? Styles P, apparently, as the D-Blocker dropped nutritional gems live from his local juice bar. Meanwhile, over at Hollis Famous Burgers, the air was thick with jubilation (and fried onions, probably) as local lad DMC brought back the silverware. That’s Run DMC’s Hall of [...]