As we do every year, we asked some assorted homies to tell us about their favorite beats of the year. The 2012 Metal Lungies Super Friends are…

• Hit-Boy – Tomorrow’s super producer (HITStory, “Niggas in Paris”)
• Chuuwee – Sacramento rhyme technician (Wild Style)
• Mo Kolours – Half-Mauritian beat-making wunderkind (EP2: Banana Wine, “Brave” / “Dredd Music”)
• Ray West – Bronx boom bap scion (LUV NY)
• Jeff and Eric Rosenthal of ItsTheReal, twerking at the intersection of Judaism and hip-hop.
• Adrian Carter – Cooler than you
• Metal Lungies editor-in-chief KNOBBZXL aka Bigg Moose aka Evan Nabavian

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If you’re going to be in LA this Sunday and you’re cultured, check out what promises to be an amazing tribute to 70s soul. Names that pop out: Miguel-Atwood Ferguson, Seu Jorge, Questlove. Someone tell Andrew Lojero that New York needs some hot buttered soul in between Bieber concerts.

Bronx dude $amhill drops a powerful song about growth in the old New York tradition. He and the guys behind LUV NY form one of the more exciting boom bap movements in recent memory.

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A video for one of the ML Certified Funky Fresh Joints® from Chuuwee’s Wild Style mixtape.

The video for “The Symbol” is easily the best of the year and- oh, man, subtly animated cover art. They covered every base. Good ass music too.

Download: Action Bronson & Alchemist – Rare Chandeliers

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The Brown Bag AllStars bro down in the video for the DJ Rhettmatic-produced cut from Brown Label Part 2. No Asher Roth.

Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous meets Los Angeles.