Karriem Riggins (born August 25, 1975) is a jazz drummer, hip hop producer, DJ, and sometime rapper. He is a former member of the Ray Brown Trio and Mulgrew Miller trio and appears in the Diana Krall quartet.

Riggins was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father, Emmanuel Riggins, is also a musician, and Karriem would often play drums with him as a child.

Riggins began producing hip hop in middle school and continued through high school.

He studied music at Southfield High School as well, and joined Betty Carter's band Jazz Ahead soon after, at 17] When he was 19 (in 1994), Riggins moved to New York City, and joined the Ray Brown Trio in 1998. Riggins has also recorded and performed with Donald Byrd, Hank Jones, Mulgrew Miller, Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Roy Hargrove, and Bobby Hutcherson.

Away from jazz, Riggins has done production work for hip hop artists including Slum Village, Erykah Badu, Common, J Dilla, The Roots, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Kaytranada, Earl Sweatshirt, Phat Kat, Consequence and Dwele. He has collaborated with the hip hop multi-instrumentalist Madlib, performing on his 2007 album Yesterdays Universe and in collaborations entitled Supreme Team and The Jahari Massamba Unit.

Riggins released his debut full-length album, the instrumental double-LP Alone Together on Stones Throw Records on October 23, 2012.

He spent much of 2016 at work on Common's much-heralded Black America Again album, which featured Stevie Wonder on the title song and included a performance at the White House as part of NPR's "Tiny Desk Concerts" series.
On February 24, 2017 Riggins released his second album on Stones Throw, Headnod Suite.

Along with Common and Robert Glasper, Riggins received the award for Outstanding Original Music & Lyrics at the 69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the song "Letter to the Free" which appeared in Ava DuVernay's Netflix documentary "13th".

He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.[9]