Ooooh, more YNR ish is it? More dopeness from the camp who have already brought us Jyager and "Feeding Time at the Zoo", this year alone, and hold down a residency at Jazz Cafe? Damn straight it is. This time it's the turn of everyone's favourite working class dad, Micall Parknsun, who brings with him his new single, "All 4 Hip Hop" (and some fresh Nikes).
This will be the debut single from his sophomore album, "First Second Time Around", which is due to drop 'shortly' according to the PR blurb. The single features two tunes, the title track and another one called, "Still Here". There are also a couple of remixes thrown in as standard, but unlike some of the pointless rehashes you get these days, these ones actually give a whole different slant to the originals.
It's all been a bit quiet round these parts over the past few weeks, what with us relocating and not having any internet access. Plus all that festive cheer being rammed down our throats, kinda drained all the creativity out of us.
Luckily free internet access is everywhere these days and so I've finally managed to drag myself away from the festering mass of turkey, chocolate coins and neverending Tim Allen movies, to see what we've missed out on since we were last on it. And where better to start than the UK compilation we dropped a fortnight ago, thanks to our American friends at aboveGround Magazine.
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. 
Yes people, the time is upon us again. Suspect Packages is coming liiive and direct, gracing us with the presence of some more immense UK talent. As if the previously billed, SonnyJim (with his Eat Good Records cohorts) and Tactical Thinking, wasn't dope enough, they've now added Micall Parknsun AND Joker Starr to the line up. 
Anyone been checking the Hip Hop Hype Dog blog recently? For the past ... 
