year's batch hands down: Mos Def & Talib Kweli once more tackling Black Star (1998), Cypress Hill reviving its second disc, 1993's Black Sunday (granted, another repeat of a recent performance), three representatives from the Wu playing 1995 titles (GZA brandishing Liquid Swords, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah revisiting Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...), Mobb Deep getting hardcore with The Infamous (also '95), and, best of all (apart from maybe Ms. Hill), Nas performing 1994's Illmatic, one of the all-time great hip-hop albums.

But wait, there's more: Oakland's Souls of Mischief will dust off 93 to Infinity, Black Moon will do likewise with its 1993 debut Enta Da Stage and Masta Killa will play all of 2004's No Said Date.

Now Ozzy Osbourne (left, with daughter Kelly at a Fox partyexpect, you begin hearing the story from the beginning. But, as well as this, the book is interspersed interviews, from various side characters, giving their view on the goings on at the school, and their accounts of the evening in question, which gives you an entirely different perspective on everything. It's a really nice change to the standard story telling format and gives this book an edge that I definitely enjoyed.

Of course what you don't know is Who has died, why they died and how and it's this that you learn throughout the more standard story format. The story is, primarily, about Jane who's a single mother that's moving to a little beachside town with her young son. When she takes her son to his first day of