Vintage Vaults Throwback : Hip Hop Connection Magazine Circa '95(?)

An incredibly influential publication in its time, I purchased and read it cover to cover from 1993 until the time it unfortunately stopped being published when the 'credit crunch' kicked in and fucked everything up. However, as is the case with these things, I found a massive stack of the fuckers tucked away in The Piranha tank (shout out Eddy P) but, not having much time to play with, only had the chance to scan these 4 pages. But what a group of pages they are.

The Wu Tang spread. Look closely and you'll see A) They've put a picture of Inspectah Deck in there saying he's the RZA (WHAAAAAAAA!?!?!?!?!?) B) Raekwon is wearing a vintage Polo Snow Beach Pullover and C) you can see the tears and bits of blue tack from where I assumedly stuck this up on my bedroom wall. I think it's from 1994/95 but can't be sure, the rest of the magazine was MIA but I'm glad I kept hold of this beauty. Plenty more where this came from though.

Incidentally, I got letter of the month twice in HHC and had a total of 5 or 6 letters printed. I very much doubt I have the balls to put those up (if I can find them) but you never know. They still owe me a bottle of champagne, come to think of it.

Obviously you can see fuck all on the jpegs, so I've upped a download link for the PDFs at the bottom, should you feel the need to look at them properly (you should).

Download the PDFs and view the magnificence HERE

http://www.zshare.net/download/88755357ddf9bdf7/




And, as an added bonus, I scanned the other side of the spread. Lucky you. However, I would like you to pay special attention to the now legendary 'Connections' page, with one specific entry being quite poignant given recent happenings in UK Hip Hop.

"YNR Productions are a Yorkshire-based collective of hip-hop acts. They are in need of local deejays available for studio work and shows. Also need contacts, and any true b-boys/girls (especially locally), whether rhymers, deejays, writers or breakers, should get in touch."

I wonder if its too late to apply, haha. Download link below.

Download the PDFs and view the magnificence HERE

http://www.zshare.net/download/88755357ddf9bdf7/




Download the PDFs and view the magnificence HERE

http://www.zshare.net/download/88755357ddf9bdf7/

HHC does live on in digital format of course, and you can D/L every one so far from http://www.hhcdigital.net/ which is one again advised. Not a patch on the old hard print, but what you gonna do?