from the LP Madvillainy 2: The Remix Album, Stones Throw Records, 2008Being sociologically minded, I tend to focus more on the patterns that exist around us, but sometimes those exceptions to the rule prove impossible to ignore--- beats-smith Madlib and rapper MF Doom (both of whom I’ve already covered here in the Honeypot) contain exactly that kind of magnetic immunity from the barren wasteland which is modern hip-hop. I remember when this collaboration first leaked out to the underground press, and it made perfect sense: 2 coasts, 2 histories, but a similar push towards all things different and, above all else, the headiest of the heady. Madlib helps the idea deliver twice here, but you know me, “…the hashish fiend, he just came from over there, the grass is greener…”, my views on the beats are herbally biased.
