Hip hop phenomenon  The campaign to bring back Yo! MTV Raps
starts here, says Hattie Collins  From its iconic graphics to
its larger than life presenters, it's impossible to overstate
the importance of Yo! MTV Raps on both hip-hop and mainstream
culture. Bringing everyone from Biggie Smalls to Salt-N-Pepa to
a worldwide audience, life certainly seems a lot duller without
the show. It's been 13 years since the rap series last graced
our screens, and music TV remains desperately dull without its
presence. Nowadays, if you want to see the latest Lil Wayne but
not Nelly, you have to wait three hours for a music channel to
play it.  But seeing the latest videos was only part of Yo!'s
charm. As well as the banter between presenters Doctor Dré (an
NYC DJ, not the ex-NWA-er), Ed Lover and Fab 5 Freddy, you could
catch LL Cool J doing a set or watch interviews with newcomers
like Wu-Tang Clan. Until Yo!, if you wanted to know about
Naughty By Nature, you had to track down one of the few copies
of the Source magazine d