Battle rap enthusiast Rudi Kinsella takes the coveted 'featured artist' tag as this week's NO ENCORE co-host, and he's only here to run down a bunch of off days and cash grabs by some of the best in the verbal business.

It's time to highlight some of the best rappers in the game unleashing some of their most pathetic work ever recorded, all in the name of a special guest verse on someone else's track.

Meanwhile, there's a.... fairly quiet news section. One of those weeks, sorry!

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ACT ONE (7:05): Dave Matthews provokes an odious story, Green Day piss off the MAGA crowd, Gojira rock and shock the Olympic Games, the Sinéad O'Connor waxwork upsets everyone, and will we ever be free of The Kooks? It's the news.

ACT TWO (40:21): Top 5 Bad Features by Good Rappers.

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TOP 5 BAD FEATURES BY GOOD RAPPERS ft. Rudi Kinsella