NIGO’s newest album in 17 years (the last one being 2005’s Nigo Presents: The Return of Ape Sounds) is a certified banger. The cheekily-named I know NIGO is a play on how a friendship with the OG multi-hyphenate creative has become a flex in an industry of insiders trying to outdo each other.

It’s also a bit of an inside joke to NIGO’s true homies, many…