The frequently unseen loop digga from Oxnard heads to merry olde to drop a mix fully of hip-hop, psychedelia, and funk music on the Benji B show. There is reportedly unheard Madvillain and new Mos Def in here, but there are a lot of other gems in here too, which means that this is like […]

The Beat Konducta may lack the showmanship of Gaslamp Killer or the sleight of hand of J. Rocc, but there are few on earth more adroit at the art of the Bug Out. Otis Jackson understands the DJ set as both an odyssey and an experiment. This is 50 minutes-plus of him at the Boiler […]

Max Bell is somewhere hidden in this pile of records. Madlib has never left his devotees hanging. There was a good Quasimoto record this June and I’m sure many still haven’t listened to all of the Beat Konducta and Medicine Show releases (19 releases combined). For now, it seems as if Madlib won’t stop melting […]

Part of Gibbs and Madlib’s campaign to get people to no longer rely on KFC. We all know the chicken is mostly worthless there and the sides are what it’s all about. Harold’s is a Windy City institution, but with no LA branch — this offers me no context. I will say that there are […]

The odds of Freddie Gibbs delivering audio dope when he starts a song off with the word “Slamming,” are even higher than the winning percentage of a regular Gangsta Gibbs song — or even higher than gangsta Gibbs himself. The second time I ever interviewed him, I smoked three blunts in one hour with him […]

Quas, the only man I will ever call “Lord.” No apologies to Solar. The Madlib Invazion carries over to Finland and Romania in order to obtain that inexpensive gypsy labor. Only in the second world can a man buy drive-thru vinyl from a monster. Drug deals are even easier, which goes better with the music. […]

Max Bell is not fragile. If you’re reading this, you’ve heard of Jonwayne, the “rap game Sam Beckett,” the “open toed Blowedian.” (see here, here, here, or here). Yesterday, marked the release of Cassette 3: The Marion Morrison Mixtape, the third tape in the “Cassette Trilogy.” Taking its name from actor John Wayne — his […]

This is the first installment of “Inspiration Information,” a feature series that asks musicians to write about some of the influences that helped shape them. In this episode, DFA-signed producer Larry Gus explains his love of Madlib and contributes a mix of his favorite songs from the unseen. If you’re unfamiliar with Gus, this recent […]

Jonah Bromwich sees the shadows of tomorrow. If I had to pick an artist that I thought people might be listening to fifty years from now, I’d give serious consideration to Madlib. For one thing, there’s the prolificacy—when you put out thirteen albums in a single year, you’re significantly multiplying the chances that someone is […]

With Captain Murphy stealing the mantle of top-tier producer turned cartoon alter-ego, the Lord hath returned. The madman born Otis Jackson Jr. assumes his hunchbacked mushroom-mangled identity to deliver a new collection of 12 tracks recorded over roughly as many years. About 2/3 these tracks were released on random vinyl, all out of print, and […]