For lovers of hip-hop, Vietnamese food, or both, I’d like to direct you to the Pho99 mixtape from Khingz, created (according to the man himself) “in celebration of summer, friends, and my upcoming FreEP Khake and Khool-Aid.” The eight-track project from Seattle Weekly’s 2009 Reader’s Choice Best MC features new verses over the beats from some old town favorites, including “Beautiful” from Gabriel Teodros’s Lovework, Blue Scholars and The Physics collaboration “Town Talk,” Scholars’ OOF! EP tracks “HI-808” and “New People” and even a reworking of his own “Boi Caimen At Adwa.” A “quicc mixtape” filled with similarly “quicc” tracks, Pho99 strikes a solid balance between his equally impressive rapid-fire and deliberately metered deliveries, and “Phone Voice (Pretty Eyes)” is a solid reminder that despite the gangbanging actions of his younger days (“She said my past was harsh but my future is kindness”) the dude can write a killer love song. Khingz hasn’t lost his spark, and Khake and Khool-Aid can’t come soon enough.