I really love Madlib' originality and skills, he has an extensive knowledge about Music and is a Jazz lover, I highly recommend for you to get his Blue Note album, it is Jazz with other influences:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...rp73UMcp3o

Enjoy!

Such a simple post I wouldn't think to do myself. But I totally agree.

Absolutely. IIRC, he did some production on the classic hip-hop album, Paul's Boutique. Shades of Blue is an excellent collection, as Suzieg76 said, and he treats it well because he does play his own music (he's made some decent-to-good instrumental albums under the name Yesterday's New Quintet).

More importantly for hip-hop heads, during this decade, he's worked very hard to keep the spirit of hip-hop alive. Whether behind the boards, going solo as Quasimoto, recording with the late great J Dilla as JayLib (see the great re-released Champion Sound), or his hip-hop instrumental joints, he's been keeping it real.

His most impressive work has been with MF Doom (f/k/a Zev Love X of KMD, and a/k/a King Geedorah and Viktor Vaughn), as the duo MADVILLAIN. Their only album, Madvillainy, is IMHO the album of the decade thus far. If you haven't checked it out, please do.

End of "rant."

namepeace said:

Great comments, thanks. I recently purchased Madvillainy on vinyl and I really loved it. The merits of artists such as Madlib and MF Doom are respecting music and understanding musical genres and being innovative which is clearly lacking these days. Originality and talent are the key elements to a good musician, singer and performer. Madlib is clearly influenced by the best Jazzmen and Old School Hip Hop but he uses his discerning skills and makes it his own, a great example to follow. Keep it real!

He's got 2 cuts on the new Erykah Badu joint as well.

He has some cool tracks on the new Stones Throw release

2K8: BBall Zombie War

And i'll be checking him in chitown on the 30th.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Cinnie said:

i'm sure Madlib can relate.

Cinnie said:

from Madlib's "The Wigflip":

Some n***as act snotty like a hot chick. /
(Real Roxanne vocal samp) "So when ya met me, I paid you no mind"

Cinnie said:

I only downloaded that Doom track, where Doom and Guilty Simpson just got dumb.