Archive for January, 2009

Kool Moe Dee Webcast

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Taking place tomorrow night, old school legend and Busy Bee destroyer Kool Moe Dee will be performing live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam - a show that you can catch via webcast by clicking here.


‘Criminology 2′

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

And so the ‘Cuban Linx 2′ saga continues, with a track titled ‘Criminology 2′ leaking, from Rae and Ghost. Grab it here.

New Jay-Z

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

New Jay-Z on the leak tip, ‘When The Money Goes’, available to cop here. Now what chance a response track by one of Def Jam’s disgruntled under-promoted rappers titled ‘Where The Money Goes’?

Dusty Crates Podcast

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The latest Dusty Crates podcast has been, er, ‘birthed’. Featuring new tracks from the likes of 50 and Premo, Jyager, Blaq Poet, MF Doom and Mos Def plus worldly insights from host The Last Skeptik, you can check it here.

All The News That’s Fit To Link…

Monday, January 26th, 2009

It’s a celebration, bitches! One epic event obviously eclipsed all else this week – the JJ Fad comeback! Elsewhere, Obama was sworn in and tribute tracks filled the air like confetti. Young Jeezy celebrated the first black prez (oh, and his own material possessions – they’re important markers of African-American progress too) before Jigga, who also performed ‘History’ at ABC’s Neighbourhood Ball, gave his take, although neither rapper impressed perennial hip-hop hater Bill O’ Reilly. Spider Loc and pals got in on the action and Diddy dug in the video vaults to relive an occasion where he shared “funny banter back and forth” with his future leader

Meanwhile, an unearthed track found Puff aiming unconvincing barbs at The LOX, claiming to know “fools with tools… where you niggas take shits at” – in fairness, he might simply have been recommending Styles P a plumber. Then it emerged that former Bad Boy for life Mark Curry has a tell-all tome about his former boss on deck

Keeping the beef broiling, Saigon fired back at Joe Budden and his allegedly pungent breath. Joey retaliated, curiously dissing Sai-giddy for the collapse of his fictional deal on the fictional TV show Entourage, then challenging his opponent to a scrap, before Twitter-savvy mutual mucker Just Blaze stepped in to diffuse things

The Game and Snoop battled too, but on the high school hardwood, while the increasingly melodic Phonte boldly ventured where no broadsheet music reviewer would dare tread, kicking home truths about Kanye’s computerized crooning

Finally, Hip-hop’s early-’90s revival continued apace, with violence at screenings of biggie biopic Notorious recalling the days of New Jack City, Boyz n’ The Hood and Juice. Most senselessly of all, 12 filmgoers at a SoHo art house cinema were gunned down by frustrated Biggie fans who’d mistakenly bought tickets to the identically titled 1946 Hitchcock flick…

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Donny Goines ‘Never Let My Talent Die’

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Up from the personal vault, here’s Donny Goines’s unreleased Disco D produced ‘Never Let My Talent Die’. Grab it here.

We B-Girlz

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

New video footage on the feminina emcee tip, featuring Roxanne Shante, Invincible, Bahamadia and more - check it here.

All The News That’s Fit To Link…

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Who’s Hall? Run’s Hall! Run-DMC began their year in style with an induction into the Rock n’ Roll Hall Of Fame while fellow Queens crew CNN rocked the bells on XXL’s new game show

Saigon lifted a middle finger at his former employers while Joe Budden lifted a middle finger at Saigon and, accompanied by Juelz and Freekey, Jim Jones fiddled about with some luxury neck-wear in the teaser for his ‘Byrdgang Swagger’ video. Jimmy, next time you’re in the UK, swing by Accessorise for a truly exceptional array of scarves, shawls and pashminas.

And you thought ‘808s And Heartbreak’ was a load of balls. Not content with baring his soul, Kanye announced his desire to bare his body in the name of art. The real surprise here? Yeezy’s willingness to be snapped without any designer cobber on… Speaking of swish togs, GQ posted its uncut Q&A with the ever-entertaining Lil Wayne. Who knew that Weezy has trouble watching Dakota Fanning? Meanwhile, DJ Drama had a hard time watching a preview of Notorious without getting roughed up by Young Jeezy’s boys. There’s always a small group of “fake thugs with low self esteem” who have to spoil it for the majority…

DMX spoke from chokey, outlining his plans to become a pastor and document his prison experience on TV. Turned out that jailbound TI’s one step ahead of him, though, with a reality show in which he forces wrong ’uns to gawp at corpses

Finally: in the market for a urine-scented pint glass as used by Vanilla Ice? Crack open your piggy bank for the upcoming, once in a lifetime auction of Death Row memorabilia. Still, if anyone cared about those “300, 000 saleable CDs in original packaging” there likely wouldn’t be an auction in the first place…

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The Horror! The Horror!

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Digging around in the dregs of the unread messages at the bottom of the ol’ inbox we came across this, another ‘08 rap up, this time courtesy of horrorcore revivalist Bekay. Click here to check it.

Foundation Issue Party

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Last night was the Foundation magazine issue launch party in NYC, at Don Hill’s club, and a host of the Big Apple’s underground came through to perform, from Donny Goines to Esso and Sav Killz, plus the newest beast from the east, Big Lou (see the next issue of HHC for more of him). Click here to check for the flicks.