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HHC’s weekly online news recap…
The season of good will? Somebody obviously forgot to tell Ransom who, as part of his tedious beef with Joe Budden, paid a less-than-festive visit to a Budden buddy. Joey swiftly turned on the camera to take the high road. Well, the higher road. Meanwhile, Queen Latifah had $10,000 worth of jewellery swiped while in Tobago. Chillingly, the robbery happened exactly 18 years after Lah got jacked for her Africa pendant in a McDonald’s toilet during the Flavor Unit’s Christmas party…
Thankfully, NORE got into the holiday spirit, blessing Juan Epstein with a typically candid interview (who knew Kanye owes his current album to NORE’s ill-fated reggaeton project?), while Hell Rell kindly cleared up some of the vagaries of hip-hop’s Stop Snitchin’ credo – nosy old ladies, you can carry on snitching with impunity! Soulja Boy also gift-wrapped another dumb opinion for us, this time comparing Nas to George W Bush…
Desperate to hit the high street in those Fila Wu-Boots Santa brought you? Slow your roll until you’ve let GZA, Masta Killa and Power’s seeds, er, lace you with the correct lacing technique. Wu-Tang footwear is for the children! DMX, on the other hand, may not even be allowed laces when he starts a prison stretch that, thanks to his impressive ’08 rap sheet, almost feels like an end-of-year award.
Not before time, a US academic exposed Kool Herc and his Bronx buddies as the culture thieves they are by revealing that hip-hop, it started in… Scotland. Some nice Scots-themed rappers from The Sun there, too, although they forgot Too Shortbread, Och Aye The Brand Noo-bian, Ghostface Kilt-ah and Roxanne Tam O’ Shanter…
Finally, we can’t say goodbye to the Oh-Eight without the annual end-of-year summary from hip-hop’s Angus Deayton. Hey, Skillz – you forgot the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand prank call scandal!
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