Homegrown Volume One should come with an unbuilt red carpet that unrolls as soon as you crack the case. We wouldn't want Oz hip-hop royalty laying their shell-toes on anything else, would we?

DJ Flagrant has really given the Rolodex a workout on this one.

And the result?

A stunning montage of hip-hop skill peppering a breathtaking gamut of styles and themes. Oz hip-hop is no stranger to the compile - Obese Records have built an empire on the term 'featuring'- but usually it's Pegz or Koolism 'featuring' someone we'd prefer to see featured in the bargain-bin at JB Hi-Fi.

Not this time.

Every MC deserves to be there and Flagrant has really put their offerings through the wringer to create a very polished product. All the usual suspects make an appearance - Bias B, NFA, Funkoars, Bliss n Eso, Downsyde and the UK's finest, Mystro. As is to be expected with a compile, some tracks are killer, some are filler and some were kinda cobbled together from the sweepings from the cutting-room floor but all passed the playlist rotation test on my iPod and the good tracks are as dope as Ben Cousins' bloodstream.

Bias B's Move on the Pavement is the embodiment of good Aussie hip-hop - clever, cheeky and in possession of the Amazing Rubber Bassline. If you're not stone-cold busting after that track, you're not trying hard enough.

NFA's Cause An Effect is along similar lines - my thesaurus tells me the word we're looking for is 'irrepressible'.

Downsyde can always be trusted to deliver and the Latin grooves of El Questro should be familiar to anyone who popped in Land of the Giants on a Friday and finally pressed stop with a trembling finger the following Tuesday.

On an actual downside, Reason pops up here and I personally can't stand him, but that's my beef.

Conversely, Pegz is here but not here enough - possibly because he's too busy working and his talented pal Muph seems a little sidelined as well. And the Hilltops make their cursory appearance with Trade Secrets but the track seems really familiar and I'm sure I've heard them use that melody before.

But with 21 tracks of extra-virgin cold-pressed Oz hip-hop goodness, the only people complaining really need to move past whatever happened to them in primary school.

Homegrown's got the lot and a bag of chips so what are you waiting for?

Pop it open. You might get a Tazo.

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