Full credit due to sample spotting hero, Ivan Rott for compiling all the samples on Madvillain into one blunted 53-minute mix. There is no download link, presumably because Madlib bugged out four years ago when websites posted download links exposing the loop digging in the lurid light. Apologies to Otis Jackson if this causes a […]

Madlib mixes aren’t smooth. He is a bug out DJ, a trickster out to lay traps. His blends can be smooth, but usually not. They’re more apt to take you on a tour of his mind, which can get as cluttered and stoned as his studio. For some people, this is a detriment. They want […]

The greatest rappers sound great over any beat. Freddie Gibbs could rap well over a spam voice recording trying to enlist you into a class action lawsuit for asbestos. Though Smokey Gibbs, the Dog, may be the uncredited star of the video. See Also: MobbDeen: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Shame EP

Deen has no shame. The latest salvo from Gibbs & Madlib ensures their batting average stays at a thousand. I’m far from surprised, but you know what they say about the best laid plans and all. Madlib provides the soulful soundscape (are we still required to reference RZA, ‘The Blueprint’, Kanye, Just Blaze and Bink […]

Watching this video can give heart attacks to the elderly. Home invasion rap has never been so psychedelic. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Thuggin’ by Rappcats

As much as this site stans for the solo work of Otis Jackson Jr., the Madliberator’s finest moments might be his outside production for female vocalists. Hence, “The Healer,” the Yamasuki-sampling soul controller from Erykah Badu’s first New Amerykah. Yet prolific as Madlib’s been, he’s never produced a full-length with a woman singer. That’s set […]

You already knew Evan Nabavian. “Fix Up” is a combustion of warped soul; a sound that thoroughly confused the Colbert Report audience when it debuted on the show in October. That characterizes the awkward/awesome collision of worlds that happens on “Fix Up,” which has all the Stones Throw grit and fuzz, but also a catchy, […]

I wrote about this at my other online emporium, but the union of Freddie Gibbs and Madlib warrants repeat posting. Getting these two together was no idle whim, this was the product of months of clandestine meetings and secrets kept. Granted, Madlib could be a CIA agent if not for his quarter ounce a day […]

Weird Al, the older gawd, is making the PR rounds for Alpocalypse in singularly strange fashion. A parody of Gaga’s Warhol-Madonna mimicry and appearing with the Roots to play “Accordian” on the Madvillain track of the same name. The wonderfulness of the weird one was nicely captured by fellow parody titan Blockhead: “There are many […]

Evan Nabavian discovered that airfare to Nittyville is $50 for every eighth of a mile. OJ Simpson was a harsh listen. For every minute of beats and rhymes, there was a minute and a half of blaxploitation dialog or stand-up comedy snippets. Sample porn. It’s like Madlib can’t resist sharing his latest crackly discovery. Madlib […]