Producer Madlib and Gary, IN rapper Freddie Gibbs have been collaborating, and the result of that partnership is two currently available EPs — Shame and Thuggin — and a yet-to-be-released full length due later this year. Here’s the title track from Shame, where Gibbs supplies a couple of his taut verses onto Madlib&...

Back in November, the stoner-rap production mastermind Madlib and the virtuosic Indiana tough-guy rapper Freddie Gibbs teamed up for a single called “Thuggin’,” which proved that they two had way better collaborative chemistry than you might expect. They’ve also got an album together coming out, but in the...

The line between Young Jeezy and J Dilla is now that much thinner. On Friday night, Californian underground rap mainstay Madlib announced a new project with Indiana mixtape murderer Freddie Gibbs, and the two debuted two new songs, “Thuggin’” and “Deep.” Both of those tracks also appear, alongsid...

Gorilla vs. Bear grabbed this new Madvillain song from the beginning of Stones Throw’s latest podcast, which features “… current & upcoming Stones Throw Records for 2011.” According to the Stones Throw website, MF DOOM and Madlib are working on their second, still-untitled studio album, to be relea...

The new Flying Lotus feels like Quasimoto (Madlib, not hunchback) getting high with a pack of soulful, clattering aliens. See for yourself at MySpace, where a girl vs. worm .gif provides apt visual accompaniment.