Metal Lungies

Tuamie with a nasty loop.

I’ve been fiending for this edit ever since Mr. Mitch played in his Valentine’s Day mix for Dazed. Attaching instrumental grime to TeeFLii works so well perhaps because the sparseness isn’t such a far cry from the DJ Mustard beats that animate ratchet & blues. Here’s hoping this turns into a real, weird collaboration a la Shlohmo and Jeremih.

Philly’s Swarvy fanutes Missy Elliott for a outtake from his Stunts series. Sidebar: I’m only noticing this now, but Missy is definitely a Nicki Minaj prototype that no one talks about.

For his next trick, P.U.D.G.E. mashes together Horace Brown’s “One For The Money” and Frank Zappa. Last time it was a YouTube meme.

Knxwledge’s torrential output of beats on Bandcamp can make him inaccessible to even the most obsessive online music hoarders (hand raised), but he seems to have found a dream collaborator and guiding force in singer/musician Anderson.Paak. Together they are NxWorries and their first single “Suede” is divinely pimpish though Paak distances himself from the label. We previously took note of Knxwledge’s soulful predilections on Hexual Sealings in 2011. We are glad it wasn’t a whim.

Per his description, beatmaker v e s a’s new tape is meant to “fund some up-coming projects & try to fund a trip to SXSW”. I’ll take it. a·typ·i·cal is 90s fetishism, but fear not another ode to Nickelodeon and Ninja Turtles. v e s a goes for new jack swing and boom bap vibes with well placed Mary J. Blige and Erykah Badu samples and a tribute to Pete Rock.

P.U.D.G.E. went and flipped a YouTube meme into a slapping instrumental.

SoundCloud gives us a glowing new jack swing-y flip of Bobby Brown’s “Roni”.

Chilli was the baddest.

Here’s a Stones Throw-esque gem from Jalal Salaam’s new album Mathematics^2 produced by Philly’s Swarvy. Also peep “1987body” where Swarvy laces a YouTube freestyle by nobody Philly rapper Vodka with a luscious free-flowing beat.