A return to hip-hop

In early 2005, I became moderately obsessed with grime. The "Run the Road" compilation essentially became my life's soundtrack, and Lady Sovereign's "cha-CHING!" ubiquitously rang in my ears for quite some time.

Then I moved to Paris and left hip-hop behind, until very recently. I'm back to actively loving grime, nu-breaks, and nearly anything with a hip-hop infused bassline (e.g. Modeselektor's incredible show here this past Friday at The Mighty). So I wanted to share some of my essential obsessions—

• This hot mix by Squincy Jones called "Nintendub" (via Matt S.) has been my car's soundtrack for about a month now.
  
• An incredible nu-breaks mixtape put together by someone here in San Francisco (via Gordon) has been melting my desk at work on a regular basis.
  
• Also thanks to Gordon, I've fallen for the Stanton Warriors, whose breakbeats I will revel in on Oct. 18.
• I can't get enough of Nadastrom's remix of Estelle's "American Boy," which features the best blogger in the Universe, Kanye.

Finally, thanks to Alexis' mixtape, my jam du jour is this Wiley single, "Wearing My Rolex"—