Rahiem Supreme is a Washington, D.C. emcee, visual thinker and underground lifer — turning Uptown stories, fly shit, Japanese cars and surreal imagery into his own strange version of luxury rap.

Coming out of D.C.’s independent scene, Rahiem built his sound around vivid storytelling and an unmistakable delivery — pulling from the lineage of Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and Jay-Z without ever sounding like somebody trying to recreate New York. His records move between dusty boom-bap, cinematic loops and left-field production, with a catalogue of collaborations that has made him a fixture in the modern underground.

Rahiem is hands-on with the whole world around the music, from performance to visual direction, treating the records, imagery and presentation as pieces of the same thing. It's eccentric, funny, stylish and deeply D.C. — music from somebody who knows exactly what his lane is and keeps making it wider.

Riff Pillage links Rahiem with Toronto producer/noise-head SaltChunkJerry on Dead Fingers Talk Raps — wild D.C. raps colliding with wonky, psychedelic, noise-melting beats. Flip the record and Jerry takes over for a full side of instrumentals on Dead Fingers Talk Retro.