A cypher is a group hip-hop freestyle session. BG Records pulled together some of Oxford’s hip-hop talent for one o’these things recently, at the Ark-T Centre in Oxford. Here’s a video of what happened, filmed by Suzy Prior and Zahra Tehrani. Not a bad way to see some of what Oxford has to offer!

Featured in the video are (in order)… HMK, Supa, Joe, AStar, Najii, Chukie, Blueprint, Cheapsk8, Snipezz and N-Zyme. The beats over which they were, er, cyphering were produced by Death Of Hifi, Cheapsk8, Nizzus and Sludem.