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May 8-14, 2003 beat box Michael Coard’s Hip-Hop 101 keeps it cerebral with Umar Bin Hasan of The Last Poets. Thu., May 8, 7 p.m., free, Anderson Hall, Temple University, 11th and Berks sts., 215-552-8714. The Ill Vibe Collective is at it again with Soulclap. Skip the gym today and get your workout tonight. Fri., May 9, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5, Fluid, 613 S. Fourth St., 215-629-0565, www.illvibe.net. Remember when it was hot to be a Ruff Ryder? In any event, the Ruff Ryders Battle Tour 2004 is calling all battle-tested MCs. Roc-a-Fella’s DJ RSonist commands the ones and twos while participants try to eat each other alive on the mic. Cash prize. Sun., May 11, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $10, The Five Spot, 5 S. Bank St., 215-574-0070. E-mail sonya@reefthelostcauze.comor call 484-354-6592 for mandatory pre-registration ($25 entry fee). Watching the boob tube again? Click to a respectable program, Drexel TV’s The Avenue. Catch the terrific twosome Kindred behind the scenes at their first video shoot all this week, May 12-16. Mon.-Fri., 4 p.m., DUTV, Cable 54, www.dutv.org/avenue. Alas, something very, very good to Philly has come to an end. After six years of making folks dance to the sweet sounds of hip-hop, a li’l reggae and even some funk and soul, The Remedy is no more. Rahnon and Cosmo Baker have bid their Monday-night mainstay adieu. Who better to pick up where The Rx left off than The Skratch Makaniks? Or is it gonna be DJ Low Budget? Or wait -- Rich Medina? It’s all being worked out, but one thing’s for sure, in the very near future, the six-year anniversary and official retirement of The Rx will be on and poppin’. Stay tuned. In the meantime, some bangin’ hip-hop from one or more of the DJs listed above waxes on each week. Mon., May 12, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5, Fluid. Or fight the power at the Beats for Peace Tour with Schoolz of Thought, Supernatural, Pharoahe Monch, Medusa, SoRi MoRi Philadelphia Korean Cultural Troupe, DJ Phillee Blunt, Yellow Rage, the Jazz/Hip-Hop Orchestra and a few Rennie Harris dancers. Whoa! Mon., May 12, $10-$15, Electric Factory, Seventh and Willow sts., 215-336-2000. DJs Sat-One and Jay-Ski are tearing up the lower level of The Five Spot every hump day with Issoeasy -- nothing but classic hip-hop. (Except for the last Wednesday of the month, when the party moves upstairs for the acclaimed monthly Beat Society.) Wed., May 14, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5, women free before 11 p.m., The Five Spot, 
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