Madlib - Pinata Beats

Madlib Invazion

£32.38

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: MMS024LP
Barcode: 0989327002419
Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Genre: Hip Hop

There are few musicians let alone beat–makers in the world whose output in its raw form provides his listener with a full on musical experience before anything is added. Madlib is such a talent. Hip hop is his canvas, but he creates the most wondrous things with it. Before a microphone is switched on, before a rhyme even uttered, a Madlib beat stands alone as a complete thing. Since the issue of the collaborative album with rapper Freddie Gibbs - Piñata, already being hailed as contender for rap album of the year - we’ve been asked countless times to issue the beats Madlib created for the project as instrumentals. And we've conceded. Piñata put Gibbs in the spotlight, one that a growing audience is finally acknowledging that he deserves. On Piñata Beats, though, it’s Madlib, quietly spinning on the center stage. Through seventeen cuts of arcane film snippets, dusted funk and soul, psych and prog rock musical diversions, Madlib proves to live up to what Gibbs once said of him: “Madlib quite simply, is music.”

A1. Supplier A2. Scarface A3. Deeper A4. High A5. Harold’s B1. Bomb B2. Shitsville B3. Thuggin’ B4. Real B5. Uno C1. Robes C2. Broken C3. Lakers D1. Knicks D2. Shame D3. Watts D4. Piñata