The perma-blunted cratedigging producer Madlib and the virtuosic Indiana G-rapper Freddie Gibbs have previously linked for two excellent EPs — check their collabs “Thuggin” and “Shame” — and now they’re hard at work on a full-on collaborative full-length called Piñata. (Bonus...

The enigmatic Californian rap producer Madlib is exactly the type of person to make a new track, put it on a 7″ single, only make 300 copies of that single, and then only sell those copies to the people who show up at one specific show. His new two-track single Rock Conducta is only available [...]

The spaced-out, impressionist West Coast underground rap producer Madlib has released two albums and one EP under his squeaky-voiced alter-ego Quasimoto, but it’s been about eight years since the last of those came out. This summer, though, Lord Quas will return in the form of a rarities compilation called Yessir Whatever, which collec...

The late rap production legend J Dilla recorded a ton of music before he died, and we still haven’t heard all of it. A forthcoming Dilla album, The Diary, consists mostly of raps that Dilla recorded over beats from other producers, including Madlib, Pete Rock, and Nottz. Dilla made it in the early ’00s, but [...]

In the video for their team-up “Thuggin’,” motormouthed Indiana street-rapper Freddie Gibbs and esoteric California producer Madlib showed us a pretty hellacious vision of criminal life. The new video for “Shame,” the follow-up, has the same director in Jonah Schwartz and some of the same ominous...