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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR1gxxh6uPk[/youtube] We got a brand new joint from Kashmere featuring Ipswich's finest, Truth. It's called "Do You Understand" and will be featured on the Rapsploitation Sessions compilation, which is due to be released on 4 February.

DJ IQ has a new mixtape coming out next week and to save me the trouble of writing more than a few lines, D.E.D has made a nice little "Flashing Lights" animation to distract you all... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDAL4yymy1I[/youtube]

It was 10 years ago that the YNR label burst onto the UK scene with some of the freshest hip hop English ears had ever heard, in the form of Jehst's "Premonitions" EP. And they kept bringing the goods after that, again and again and again, with a roster that featured some of the finest emcees & producers in the country: Evil Ed, Tommy Evans, Lewis Parker, Cee Why... Now to celebrate their first decade, the Young n' Restless are descending on the Jazz Cafe to give us a showcase of the sort of hip hop that has made them a force to be reckoned with.

Anyone been checking the Hip Hop Hype Dog blog recently? For the past ...

The first time London has ever seen Hip Hop and Burlesque ...