Okayplayer equals quality, so I was immediately excited for this compilation. The first song 'KO Player': BANG, another Madlib superproduction, no need to question who’s gonna win The Source Award for Best Producer this year.

In an era where TV only plays 'that wack ish anyway' and the quality of music videos seems to be reduced to Youtube.com standards, it’s crucial that underground imprints such as Peter Agoston’s FemaleFun release DVD’s.

Only released on vinyl and with a boombap drum machine-sound, Earquake's first release proves to be made by purists with a warm heart for the culture, at the same time putting Belgium on the map again

The music is far from any of its participants’ greatest songs, but, hey, don’t expect a compilation to turn into a classic. Insightful and entertaining though.

Just as the roman 'Brave New World' this album has a utopian side to it. It contains great hip-hop with a optimistic vision -the authors are predicting a world that is deliberated from unskilful rappers- but it has an ironic edge to it. They still know that the struggle has to continue and that the world -politics- won’t turn for the better of things all of a sudden.

'Afronauts' is a collection of feel-good, 'bon vivant' tracks celebrating the love for music (with several old school quotes), family and money. The production is 'soul-id' like a rock, the lyrics hold the middle between underground struggle and mainstream shine and make this a complete yet various music bundle of soul-soothing hip-hop.

This album is a direct reflection of quality 21st century hip-hop and it’s also nice to see that two lyrical geniuses have finally found each other on a track

Illadelphia's upcoming rap talent Viro The Virus' follow-up to'Jersey's Finest' has turned into a 19-track trip displaying Chuck Smut's freestyle experience with an ability to 'twist syllables and spliffs' and drop more rock-solid metaphors than your average rapper.

Of all their albums, this is their most untypical, but an ideal opportunity to invite other hip-hop fans to the adventurous, creative, positive as well as left-wing orientated that 'We Are The Ones' really is. That's all we need this Fall, so far...