Junior Spesh

Twisted Pepper, Dublin Thurs 10.30pm €8/€5 01-8734800

Dublin hip-hop crew Workin' Class Records is on a bit of a roll of late. True, it was unfortunately featured on Ireland's Rappers, that terrible RTÉ documentary which willfully missed the point about Irish hip-hop in favour of caricaturing the participants.

But Workin’ Class doesn’t need to rely on the small screen misrepresentation to make a point. Recently, the label has seen Lethal Dialect move up a couple of levels with his latest album, LD50 Part 2, and it’s now set to bring a new record by James Costello to the masses.

Those who follow the north Dublin hip-hop scene will know Costello (below) from his association with Street Literature, but new album Illiosophical, which is launched tonight, sees him very much following his own star.

Support from Lethal Dialect, superfly producer GI, Willa Lee (the man with an immaculate soul holler), Garry O’Brien and DJ Moschops.

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Techno operations with Surgeon (Fri, Cork); warp speed rhymes with Scroobius Pip (Fri, Dublin); and 110th Street roll again (Sat, Galway)