Washington, D.C. --- Chicago and D.C./Maryland hip hop have something very important in common – they're both underrated. But as of this summer these two emerging scenes have something else in common.

Choong Family show a remarkable return to the scene after the success of their chart hit singles Memory Lane & Fallback. They unleash yet another double-barrelled single Monologue For The Thoughts & Injury Time.

The Platinum Edition DVD is bursting with 3 hours of footage including a 1 hour documentary on the award winning group, radio interviews, live performances and behind the scenes interviews and tour footage.

On October 9, 2004, The Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York’s Madison Square Garden. These 50 different passionate perspectives, shot from the point-of view of the audience, take the viewers deep inside the world of a live Beastie Boys show, capturing the experience of a live musical performance like no film ever has done.

On Wednesday 12th July hundreds of music fans will descend upon Cargo nightclub in London to witness a competition like no other: music being made solely with the mouth. Eight of the country’s finest human beatboxers will fight it out to become the National Champion, and to represent the UK at the World Championships in Tokyo this Winter.

P.A.C is back with a really pumping track full of depth and gusto. Complex Theory has a 70's TV theme feel on the production and the black and white video directed by Mark Potter perfectly compliments that vibe with an uptempo chase sequence.

Following a scathing attack on hip hop and rap culture by Cameron in The Mail On Sunday, and a fierce debate on Newsnight, the Tory leader has been invited to Lethal Bizzle’s next London show. The influential ‘grime’ artist, performing tomorrow at Scala, King’s Cross, has entered a vicious war of words with Cameron over the last few days, after the Tory leader claimed that Lethal’s lyrics encouraged knife violence.

Us3’s fifth album Schizophonic sees producer Geoff Wilkinson’s rolling cast of rappers and musicians returning to the task of fitting the pieces of the jazz and hip-hop puzzle into one kaleidoscopic whole.

Humurak D Gritty, widely regarded as one of the UK's fiercest rhyming talents, is back with what's being tipped as his strongest material to date.

Growing up with hip-hop, Ewan David Alman aka Da Brakes developed an early taste for the rap scene. Artists such as Michael Jackson and 2 Pac have inspired him, but it must be said that his biggest influence has been Will Smith.