Day 5 of HHC appreciation week. Here’s a really in depth interview with the first hip-hop band (click each image to enlarge), let’s hope they get asked to stand in on Jimmy Fallon when The Roots go on tour. Stetsa don’t often get the praise they deserve, we’ve certainly not given them enough shine over [...]

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HHC appreciation week, day 4. Today we find the Demon Boyz in interview with Simon Dine. We know you’re busy but this a great piece so try and read it rather than just look at the picture and listen to the audio. They’re brilliant snapshhots of hip-hop history. The Boyz opine about oddly shaped eyebrows, [...]

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As promised it’s day 2 of our HHC appreciation week and more material from it’s first ever issue. If you didn’t know, a new digital version of the magazine is  available on virtual news stands everywhere right now. First up, to view the images up above  click on them and they will magically grow. We [...]

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Way back in 1988 Hip-Hop Connection’s very first issue hit the shelves in the UK. What you see here is an authentic dog-eared Fat Lace office copy of that very issue. Note the small arrow pointing at DJ Spinderella’s head. Before we were old enough to buy pornography, this was as good as it got.
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Having both contributed and been personally associated with HHC for almost 15 years , the Fat Lace crew take their hats off to Hip Hop Connection and it’s long serving editor Andy Cowan. Sadly, you’re looking at the last ever issue of HHC.

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Biggie died yesterday, not literally silly, 12 years ago yesterday. We’re quite glad because it means we have a reason to post classic print articles like these. What else would we do otherwise? So here’s a classic Source cover from ‘95. A couple of interesting points. First up he’s bigger than the twin towers which [...]

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New HHC is all set to drop, with the inclusion of The Game on the cover set to upset idiots who feel someone like Million Dan should be on there instead. Yes, and the mag would then sell 6 copies. As much as The Game annoys – petty beefs, stupid tattoos, the worthless Black Wall [...]

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Back in the day, the late nineties to be exact, the independent magazine world was riddled with beef. We’ll give you one guess as to who was always at the centre of it. Yep, yours truly had beef with Ego Trip, we still don’t think they’re talking to us. There was the infamous set-to backstage [...]

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Remember when Dre really mattered and hip-hop moved units? Earlier in the month we said we wouldn’t speculate as to whether the ‘Detox’ album may or may not materialise this year. We’ll stand by that, but even if it did you could predict each step of the flimsy promotional campaign. First up, every blog [...]

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This takes us back to the days when you could convince a now global megastar to do a cover shot for a tiny underground Rap title. Stress was a classic publication edited by Jessica Green. They gave a credible nod to the graffiti scene, repped New York to fullest and their contributing writers were largely [...]

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