albums and tracks

Editor's rating

When it first appeared in 2007, undervalued UK hip-hop classic 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' skewered the insular, snooty and knowing nature of the UK music scene in a far more pointed manner than previous efforts within the micro-genre.

On this new mix, Plug One from De La Soul pops up to spray some verses and, true to form, his lines are sharp and hilarious - particularly when he takes a swipe at his own band's lengthy time between records, racism and the smoking ban.

But what is especially commendable is that skilled MC Scroobius Pip has also come up with plenty of new lines, the best of which comes at the track's start.

In a reference to his own arrest at London's Liverpool Street train station, our man intones: "Thou shalt not think everyone with a beard is a terrorist."

And in following that line with, "Thou shalt not think having a blog makes you a journalist", Pip verges dangerously close to outright genius.