More HHC mags this week - June (#17) and July (#18) 1990.
We've got Overlord X and Norman Cook's 10 favourite tunes, features and interviews with Blade, Gunshot, Outlaw Posse, NWA, Silver Bullet and a buttload of others. Remember Kash Da Masta? He's showing us all his favourite things in a photoshoot reminiscent of something out of Just 17 magazine.
HHC were never afraid to dip their toes into the more commercial side of rap and there are some articles on Technotronic, Snap! and MC Tunes if that's your bag.
Who wants to win an electronic personal organizer from Abbey National? Not so much a competition as a frankly blatant plug for this once ubiquitous high street chain.
A Tribe Called Quest fans will enjoy the song by song breakdown of the group's debut album in issue 18. And who remembers the ragamuffin hip-hop phase? It's all here.
June 1990 (17)
July 1990 (18)
I realised that I hadn't posted these issues to the blog (or anywhere) since I scanned them two years ago.
So here they are, issues 11 (December 1989) through to 16 (May 1990). Plus I have recently scanned issues 17, 18 & 19 which will bring us up to August 1990.
However there is one missing and that is #14 (March 1990). This is not due to me not having it but rather I DO have this copy, but it is STILL SEALED. I would've been buying two copies of HHC back in the day and using one copy to cut up and pull out posters with the other copy being kept in the 'good' pile. I must've battered the sod out of issue 14 then by all accounts.
I'm not going to open up this one just yet as this is obviously my retirement fund. Maybe in the future, who knows...
Top Trivia: Issue 15 (April 90) features a letter from one Louis Theroux writing under the alias, King Lou-E. He mentions this in his recent autobiography, We Gotta Get Theroux This. His disparaging comments about UK hip-hop artists will prove to bring a huge backlash in a future issue (namely #17, June 1990 YO! letters page).
Anyway, here they are. More issues to come very, very soon.
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