Here is a nice black-and-white video for the song "Wichita" by the young rapper XV, who is from Wichita, Kansas. The song is good, though I wish XV had done a little more with the chorus. The star producer Just Blaze, who is most famous for his work with Jay-Z, constructed the beat for XV's song using samples of the classic pop standard "Wichita Lineman" as recorded by Johnny Harris and the Dells.

Things are finally looking up for Saigon. A few years ago, the hard-knock NYC rapper looked like he was about to become a big star. After a string of very strong mixtapes, he signed with Atlantic Records through producer Just Blaze's Fort Knocks Entertainment, and, in 2005, landed a recurring role on HBO's "Entourage," while readying his first album, The Greatest Story Never Told.