Hip-Hop Connection
Hip Hop Connection was UK-based monthly magazine devoted entirely to hip hop culture. It was published between 1988 and 2009.
12 articles
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Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Rage — The Chronic Tour: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, June 1994
WHEN YOU think about it, the very fact that this gig took place at all seems more than a little miraculous. With one of the ...
Report and Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, November 1994
THURSDAY 1st September, Backstage stairwell, The Forum, Kentish Town, London. ...
Naughty By Nature: Poverty Rap
Interview by Frank Broughton, Hip-Hop Connection, February 1995
Yet another Newark success story? Most definitely. Those naughty lil' devils, Naughty By Nature, are poised to return with a new album backed by a ...
Gang Starr, Guru: Guru: Reality Bites
Interview by Frank Broughton, Hip-Hop Connection, July 1995
For most other artists, one project like Jazzmatazz in a lifetime would be enough. Not for Guru. Jazzmatazz 2: The New Reality collects up many of the first LP's ...
Eric B. & Rakim, Rakim: Rakim: I'll Be Back
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, December 1995
Once upon a rhyme, a young rapper called Rakim hooked up with a deejay named Eric B. The collision was cataclysmic and their impact deadly. ...
Canibus, LL Cool J, Wyclef Jean: LL Cool J, Canibus and Wyclef Jean: The '4,3,2,1' Beef
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, 2000
WHEN CANIBUS recorded a verse for LL Cool J's '4,3,2,1' in 1997, he can hardly have realised what was about to unfold. ...
Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, 2000
"I ALWAYS like the idea of people getting together, like The Power Station, the Travelling Wilburys, groups like that," says Raphael Saadiq in all earnestness. ...
Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, 2001
FROM THE drivers' seat of his black GMC jeep, Kool G Rap stares intently at the police car. Despite the air conditioning being turned up ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, 2002
BUSTA RHYMES has a heavy cold and a brutal schedule, and he's already running three hours late. ...
Report and Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, 2006
ONE OF the most unexpected meetings in English Parliamentary history took place in late October, when Rhymefest sat down with Conservative Party leader David Cameron. ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, January 2007
JERRY HELLER may just have the most undeservedly bad rep in the history of hip hop. ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, April 2009
I GUESS you could say he's been away. But he's never strayed far. ...
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