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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqWslSnrw8[/youtube] As if this is some sort of impromptu UK hip hop video Monday, we've got yet another blessing on celluloid for you. This time from Asaviour and DJ IQ with "No Days Off", featuring Sir Smurf Lil and TB.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-jFOYw5OEU[/youtube] Today sees the release of Mystro's "F.D.T." EP, so in light of that fact and also just cos it is dope, we have got the brand new video for the track, "U Live & U Learn".

From Mike Mictlan and Lazerbeak's 2008 album, "Hand Over Fist": [myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101105653[/myspace]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-EMcct1K3E[/youtube] More musical mayhem from Murs, Slug and Aesop Rock this week, as the video for "Felt Chewed Up", premiered on MTVu (we got it ...

Collaborations in music can be a dodgy area. Some should be struck from the history books forever - Jay-Z and Linkin' Park, Celine Dion and R. Kelly, Common and the god-bothering Jonas Brothers (f'real) - but there are others that should be praised forever - Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Kool Keith and Godfather Don, DJ Shadow and James Lavelle etc etc... Well now it seems there is another dangerous duo on the horizon, with a combined back-catalogue so dope it almost hurts. Del the Funky Homosapien and Tame One are the legends in question and I don't use that term for just anyone; both these emcees are responsible for producing powerful hip hop, in many manifestations, over many years.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYky7kUWP_4[/youtube] Anyone with their finger on the Rhymesayers' pulse will already know that Brother Ali is on his Fresh Air Tour at the moment, alongside label mates Toki Wright and Evidence. By all accounts the live show is amazing (shock horror), which is all well and good if you happen to be in the States and can actually go catch one of the shows, but some of us live in other places and don't have the kind of funds necessary to feed an international live hip hop habit.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPx3bNESYQ[/youtube] When I was a kid, probably around 14 or 15, I became friends with a dude at school who gave me my first ever hip hop tape. It had "Illmatic" on one side and "Enta Da Stage" on the other, both albums that I still bang today. Anyway the guy's name was Chris and we'd continue to bump into each other around Bristol until I moved away for a few years in 2003.

I came across a new collaborative project the other day featuring the impressive talents of Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic and ...

It's only a matter of hours since we dropped the latest on the massive Orphans of Cush project. Well now, as if by magic, ...

in a day and age that we take everything for granted , here's the story of one of the tools that has made our minds ...