Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Piñata Beats 2LP

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.”

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 2014

Tracklist:

A1 Scarface

A2 Deeper

A3 High

A4 Harold's

B1 Bomb

B2 Shitsville

B3 Thuggin'

B4 Real

C1 Uno

C2 Robes

C3 Broken

C4 Lakers

D1 Knicks

D2 Shame

D3 Watts

D4 Piñata