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Heems: "Cowabunga Gnarly" Prod. Harry Fraud

Heems gets a little more frantic than we're used to on this new cut.

Adorable, slurry-voiced Heems of Das Racist, has quietly been killing it in the run up to his solo mixtape, Wild Water Kingdom. And, while I've been pretty accustomed to him having a rather nonchalant, borderline-drunk approach to rapping, out of nowhere he tears this beat to pieces with a waaaay more hyperactive style. There's still all the puns and comedy asides we've come to expect from Heems, but underneath all the lulz, you realize there's a ton of clever shit about ethnicity and cultural re-appropriation.

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Meanwhile, he's enlisted the help of Harry Fraud, (who's reached the true point of production laudability that his name is now crowbarred into blog post titles now) on, umm, production duty. Fraud couples a wall-punchingly excellent Bollywood sample with a ton of frantic hi-hats and belly shaking bass. Ugh, excellent, all round.