When it comes to hip hop memorabilia the Beastie Boys are connoisseurs; true understanders of the value of brand and its potential for useless (but collectible and subsequently expensive) offshoots. Even as we speak the brilliant UNIQLO store in Japan is featuring several Beasties derived T’s in its summer range.

But very few acts have their own designer wallpaper. As in real wallpaper you put on Walls, not something for your computer. So collectors, up your game and paper the smallest room in Mike D’s hand printed Brooklyn wallpaper:
 

Wiki93 is the first thing I’ve heard in the last decade or so that stamps itself firmly side by side with hip-hop’s legends of the late 80’s, early 90’s. If Mos Def/Beastie Boys/ODB happens to harmonise in a bar the familiar tune of ‘they just don’t make them like this anymore’ seems to commence. Well RATKING are my overwhelming rejection of that notion. Signed to Hot Charity/XL Recordings, many would say they’re punching but the indie kings have once again picked up a cracker.

Australian hip hop producer extraordinaire M-Phazes is back with a new album on Coalmine Records.

As Long As I’ve Got You is a song recorded by the all girl soul group, The Charmels, in 1966. It was written by the team of Porter & Hayes, who were some of the creative influences behind the killer southern soul music label Stax Records in the mid 1960s.

Wu-Tang Clan put it to good use on C.R.E.A.M off the classic Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) album in 1993.