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Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez drops Kanye West as a client

Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez drops Kanye West as a client

Big business can’t stop running away from Ye Johnny Depp‘s star lawyer, Camille Vasquez, has become the latest person to ditch Kanye West following his antisemitic remarks. Vasquez, who became a celebrity during Depp’s highly publicised defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, reportedly told her firm, Brown Rudnick, to close the door to Ye after […]

3 years ago

Def Jam Vendetta: The strange story of the greatest hip-hop wrestling game ever

Def Jam Vendetta: The strange story of the greatest hip-hop wrestling game ever

The story of how the wrestling/hip-hop mash-up happened is just as interesting as the game itself Hip-hop. Video games. Wrestling. Those are three of the greatest things in the world. So it is surprising that it took so long for somebody to put them all together in the same package. But that’s what made the […]

6 years ago

Legendary Hip Hop group Beastie Boys to release new book

Legendary Hip Hop group Beastie Boys to release new book

The Beastie Boys are unique So unique in fact that they’re releasing a book that is more a panoramic experience than a bog standard coffee table read. Simply titled BEASTIE BOYS BOOK, it tells the story of the iconic Hip Hop trio, who when they formed in 1981 started out as a New York City hardcore band, by members […]

8 years ago

It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot: DMX’s haunting magnum opus turns 20

It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot: DMX’s haunting magnum opus turns 20

The year was 1998 Bad Boy Records ran everything: the airwaves, the charts and any award show willing to recognise Hip Hop music as a credible art form. If it wasn’t Ma$e’s Harlem World album banging out of speakers in cars passing by then it was Puff Daddy’s No Way Out or The Lox’s Money, […]

8 years ago

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