The Griselda Goon-Rap Renaissance
(WorldNews Music)

There’s no Griselda Records starter pack, no canonical classic to lure you in. That’s not how the Buffalo rap crew does business. Instead, there’s a steady stream of content — whole new albums showing up every week or two, offering more ancestrally brutalist head-nod street-rap, more granular talk about drug sales and bullet fragments, more lightly refracted boom-bap beats, more samples of old pro-wrestling promos. At a certain point, you just decide to tap into that stream, or you don’t. If an album doesn’t lodge itself in your consciousness, that’s fine. There will be another one before long. For the past few months, Griselda Records has been going...