Hip Hop Connection was considered the best magazine in the world by which rapper and author?
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
Hip Hop Connection
Hip Hop Connection (HHC) was the longest running monthly periodical devoted entirely to hip hop culture.
 HHC earned universal recognition and was described by Chuck D as "the best magazine in the world".
Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.
 As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, he helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s.
 About.com ranked him at No. 9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of All Time, while "The Source" ranked him at No. 12 on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Lyricists of All Time.
New Zealand hip hop
New Zealand hip hop derives from the wider hip hop cultural movement originating amongst African Americans in the United States.
 Like the parent movement, New Zealand hip hop consists of four parts: rapping, DJing, graffiti art and breakdancing.
 The first element of hip hop to reach New Zealand was breakdancing, which gained notoriety after the release of the 1979 movie "The Warriors".
 The first hip hop hit single, "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang, became a hit in New Zealand when it was released there in 1980, a year after it was released in the United States.
 By the middle of the 1980s, breakdancing and graffiti art were established in urban areas like Wellington and Christchurch.
 By the early 1990s hip hop became a part of mainstream New Zealand culture. Hip hop in Washington, D.C.
Hip hop music in Washington, D.C. has been an important part of the culture of the area.
 The traditional style of hip hop in the city has been described as not quite the same as New York City hip hop and not quite the same as Southern hip hop.
 Rather, it has been influenced by both regions to form its own unique style of music.
 The population of D.C. is not large enough to support as many distinct subgenres of rap as other metropolitan areas, and as a result, the sound and style of D.C. hip hop is very mixed and blended.
 Prominent D.C. based hip hop artists include Wale, Oddisee, Fat Trel, Shy Glizzy, Lightshow, Ant Glizzy, Percy Jonez & Santino Ranks of YNWV and a few newcomers , GoldLink, Chaz French & Jay IDK.
 Many of these newcomers are typically featured on local radio stations such as 93.9 WKYS.
 20bello a rapper, director and promoter was the original founder of the DMV (DC area moniker) Music movement.
 He remains to this day very instrumental in creating a music scene where young upcoming artist could thrive hence the recent article in the Washington Examiner Deliverance (Bubba Sparxxx album)
Deliverance is the second album by American rapper Bubba Sparxxx.
 It was released on September 16, 2003, by Beat Club and Interscope Records.
 It was produced by Timbaland and Organized Noize.
 The album debuted at number 10 on the "Billboard" 200 with 64,500 copies sold in the first week released.
 Although this album was only moderately successful, selling around 350,000 copies, it is regarded by many critics such as "The Source", "Hip Hop Connection" and more mainstream magazines such as "Q" to be something of a landmark in hip-hop music.
 The album's main strength according to critics was that it embraced Sparxxx's grass roots, with production heavily influenced by country music and similar musical styles.
 This influence is evident on tracks such as "Comin' Round" which sampled its chorus from a track by the bluegrass group Yonder Mountain String Band, leadout single "Jimmy Mathis" which is led by a catchy harmonica tune from the Area Code 615 track "Stone Fox Chase", and "She Tried" led by a washboard rhythm section and a mellow fiddle sound. Will Ashon
Will Ashon (born 1969) is an English novelist, former music journalist and founder of the Big Dada imprint of Ninja Tune records.
 Ashon was educated at Countesthorpe Community College and Balliol College, Oxford.
 In the mid-1990s he worked as a music journalist specialising in hip hop for publications including "Trace", "Muzik", "Hip Hop Connection", "Raygun" and "The Source".
 In 1997 he started the record label Big Dada Recordings in conjunction with Ninja Tune, signing and releasing albums by artists including Roots Manuva, Diplo, Speech Debelle and Wiley. Slime &amp; Reason
Slime & Reason is the sixth studio album of original material by Roots Manuva.
 It was released on 1 September 2008 on the Big Dada label.
 Hip Hop Connection magazine named it Album Of The Year 2008. Zenji flava
Zenji Flava is a common nickname for Zanzibari hip hop, a genre that began to develop in the 1990s.
 Cool Para said to be the first rapper to pioneer Zenji Flava during the 90s.
 He was using Saleh Jabri's tape to rap on some local shows in Zanzibar until 1996 when he teamed-up with another rapper named Cool Muza together with others they formed a rap group called "Struggling Islanders.
 They made their debut single "Historia" in early 1997.
 Though the group short-lived and Cool Para and Muza both went to pursue a solo career.
 Cool Para was the first rapper in Zanzibar and Tanzania mainland to make rap and taarab fusion called taarap.
 With it he went to record a song with the most prominent taarab music band widely known as the East African Melody Modern Taarab, the song was known as "Loo Umezoea" which was released early 2000.
 He also did "Kwenye Mataa" with the same taarab band in 1998.
 Before Cool Para, there was also another short-lived crew named Contish.
 The group consisted with two members Abdul and Hakim.
 They released their only album called "Mabishoo" (93).
 The album was available all over Zanzibar and Tanzania.
 They were using Swahili lyrics over ragga instrumentals such as 'Tingaling' by Shabba Ranks.
 Sam,e style as Saleh J. Sometimes later they disbanded and Kim went on pursue a solo and released an album called Kim Pekee.
 Abdul went to live abroad.
 The name is made of "zenji", which is slang for "Zanzibar", and "flava", which is a corruption of "flavour", thus meaning "of Zanzibari taste".
 As with bongo flava, i.e., Tanzanian mainland's hip hop, zenji flava is usually sung in swahili; the main difference between the two subgenres is that Zanzibari hip hop also reflects some influence of taarab, and thus indirectly of Arab music and Indian music.
 Notable zenji flava artists include Ali Haji.
 As Zenji flavour goes on it find itself as a sub part of Bongo flava as it has influence from the young generation of artists who want to cop with Bongo flava.
 like Offside trick, 2 berry now is separated to form two solo artists（Berry black and Berry white）, Wazenji kijiwe and Shaka zulu, others are East connection which was made up with almost seven groups of artist including Offside trick Brooklyn, Four nature, Jumbo camp, Queen love, and K jam.
 It was in this time that Zenji flava was modernized with rapid growth in the number of artists. The Connection (DeLon album)
"The Connection" is the Debut Album by American Rapper DeLon.
 It was officially released on September 27, 2005.
 The first single from 'The Connection' was 'Calor De La Salsa'.
 "Calor De La Salsa" peaked on the Billboard charts at No.15 / /chart?f=353 <- Calor De La Salsa on Billboard and established DeLon as the First Sri Lankan to ever chart on the US Billboard Charts.
 The Connection united Hip Hop listeners of all cultures as it features eclectic beats of different styles of cultural music mixed with American Hip Hop.
 With roots in Salsa, Samba, Reggae, Soca, Sri Lankan, Indian and Middle Eastern music, The Connection is an album that unites all cultures through international Hip Hop.
 As reviewed by YRB Magazine, Christian hip hop
Christian hip hop (originally Gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, Gospel hip hop or holy hip hop) is a branch of hip hop music characterized by a Christian worldview, with the general purposes of evangelization (Christian mission work), edifying some members of the church and/or simply entertaining.
 It has also been characterized by a defensive posture to its inherited philosophy of cultural appropriation, rejecting the origins in resistance to oppression and exploitation, by denying any connection to the global Hip-Hop Culture movement.
 Christian hip hop music emerged from urban communities in the United States in the 1980s, when it existed almost exclusively in small underground scenes, with minimal formal industry promotion and little mainstream attention.
 It emphasizes the use of positive and uplifting messages to promote faith and belief.