Manifest Destiny! Westward Ho! As usual, producers lead this Top 10 with inspired beatdown's like the E.C. Illa wide-angle "Ill At Will", Jurassic 5 coming hard with the heavily syncopated "Twelve", state-of-emergency-with-ten-seconds-to-meltdown "Nitro Theme Remix" by Protest (featuring Fresno's favorite son, Planet Asia), and a head nod on command from da man Encore on "For You". Oh and that's not a deja vu you heard but a new pressing of "Players" by Detroit's Slum Village. West Coast and Midwest definitely breaking it down for the world to hear the latest styles! What happened New Yack? OK, we gotta admit... the only MC in this Top 10 with a real sense of character development is Queens NYC's own J-Zone on "No Consequences" (featuring the reincarnation of Starsky & Hutch alumnus, Huggy Bear) and also on "The Smurf Syndrome", both of which can be found on his sophomore album A Bottle Of Whup Ass. Sample Of The Month goes to Brownsville Brooklyn Bombers M.O.P. for their effective choppity choppity of "Don't Call Me Nigger Whitey" by the totally MIA Sly Stone. For you primitive types, I suggest jumping up and down with spears in hand to the chanthem "Murda Box", featuring Hedrush, Dead Prez, and People's Army. This tribal war song appears on the double album recently released by renegade revolutionary organization, Prison Moratorium Project. Demandingly titled No More Prisons... buy the album or I'm going to put a prison curse on you! And not even Dilated People's "Last Line of Defense" will save you. Aha ha ha ha haaa !!