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Thought I told you it was on again. First and foremost, thank you to everyone for sticking around. I know it's been a minute. I'll try to explain more later, but for now, the episode: This is a sidebar to the ...

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Episode 29 this time of the livest hip-hop podcast ever, fuck them other joints, cause they really just aren't fucking with the Mixtape Show.

Case in point - who else brings you shit from the UK AND the dirty dirty in one episode? You can count the number of sites on my middle finger, suckers, cause there's only one. All kidding aside, I've got some pretty out-there and interesting shit for y'all this week. We're gonna start off with some more straight-ahead hip-hop from across the pond, then jump into some grime, then hit you over the head with some of that suvvin rap shit. Don't miss the messages section at the end, complete with some more Dilla-inspired beats.

Assaviour and Jehst - Money in the Bank (orig. version). This episode is gonna get crazy, so I thought I'd start y'all off with something that you could handle. Check the production and the hook on this one...instant classic. lowliferecords.co.uk.

Okay, another review of some shit that probably about 0.2% of you rap nerds are actually up on – Lady Sovereign, with Vertically Challenged. So I’ve been hearing Lady Sov’s (if you can’t spell “sovereign” it’s perfectly acceptable to call her that) name thrown around for a minute now. I guess she was on that Run the Road compilation that Chester Copperpot was making fun of and that I’ve still never heard. Anyway she’s part of this “grime” shit that all those funny-talking British kids are listening to nowadays. I’m into the shit so once I got the CD, I actually bothered to listen to it, unlike all those fucking terrible demos I seem to get nowadays. Moving on. Review is after the jump.

Grime. Here's some shit some of you are probably familiar with, but just in case, I thought I'd drop a little more knowledge on you uneducated motherfuckers. Basically, Grime is like UKG, except, well, grimier. I've heard people thrashing about whining about how the term "grime" is racist (suggests dirty and criminal elements, or something like that), but I've been hearing that same argument on that whole jungle/dnb tip for a long time now, and anyway I don't take offense to it, but yo, I ain't from the UK, so what do I know? Point is that I call it grime, and until words like "sublow" or "8bar" or "eskibeat" stop sounding really really fucking weird to me, I'm gonna continue to call it that.