Metal Lungies

Karriem Riggins has been on a roll since “30 Hours,” or I’ve just started paying attention.

Gonzo Internet beatheads have an affinity for New York goon rap because it’s kind of cool to hear a Funkmaster Flex freestyle over floaty backpacker boom bap and it also probably avoid the “conscious rap” label. Here are choice cuts from Knxwledge’s newest batch, WT?.?PRT10?.?8_.

Here’s the less romanticized New York, the late 90s style proto-Maybach Music silky goon music for mixtape DJs to fight over.

The sprawling, Eastern-inflected “Shabba” remix I didn’t know I needed. I’m sure there will be a lot more heat on Josh Hey’s Beat Hotel tape when it drops.

Psychedelic shit talk. WestSide Gunn and Oh No is a combination worth reprising, I think.

Beat tapes are great but a new Quelle Chris album is necessary. Also peep his new video with MosEL.

$amhill is the best rapper you’ve never heard of.

All ice cream trucks should play Madlib. Mass Appeal says the instrumental version of Bad Neighbor has three new beats.

Every good Wu-Tang track very well might be the last. Cherish it.

You would think a progressive, indie beatmaker wants to get his beats in front of Blu or whoever is dropping on Fat Beats next month. But you can tell TUAMIE is dying to produce gangster rap. On his recent tapes, he’s remixed The Clipse, vintage Jay Z, and now Freddie Gibbs with Madlib-lite beats. It’s a fun and effective mixture.

Clear an afternoon and listen to his 2015-2016 tapes below.