Renowned hip-hop producer Madlib enlists Black Thought and Your Old Droog for his new track “Reekyod,” the producer’s first single in three years.
Over a crackling, D.O.C.-sampling beat crafted by Madlib, the two rappers showcase their lyrical prowess. “Everything I spit, shine/Imma get mine, regardless,” Droog proclaims on his verse.
“This is strictly for the honorees,” Black Thought said of the collaboration in a statement. “Madlib is in his bag per usual and Yod is more than a force to be reckoned with. Simply complex,...
Over a crackling, D.O.C.-sampling beat crafted by Madlib, the two rappers showcase their lyrical prowess. “Everything I spit, shine/Imma get mine, regardless,” Droog proclaims on his verse.
“This is strictly for the honorees,” Black Thought said of the collaboration in a statement. “Madlib is in his bag per usual and Yod is more than a force to be reckoned with. Simply complex,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Madlib is back with a new single, “Reekyod,” which features The Roots’ Black Thought and Your Old Droog. The song marks Madlib’s debut release on his own label, Madlib Invazion. Stream it below.
“Reekyod” is Madlib’s second collaboration of 2024 with Your Old Droog following last month’s “Dbz,” a Madlib-produced effort that also featured Denzel Curry and Method Man. While “Dbz” offered a smooth sound, “Reekyod” feels more urgent, offering room for the rappers’ respective claims on artistic freedom. “Everything I spit, shine/Imma get mine, regardless,” says Droog.
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Speaking about the collaboration, Black Thought shares, “Simply complex, this piece is high art. Triple threat. Instant classique.”
While Madlib is gearing up for a brief string of shows with Freddie Gibbs to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their joint album Piñata (secure tickets here), Droog has an album of his own on the horizon.
“Reekyod” is Madlib’s second collaboration of 2024 with Your Old Droog following last month’s “Dbz,” a Madlib-produced effort that also featured Denzel Curry and Method Man. While “Dbz” offered a smooth sound, “Reekyod” feels more urgent, offering room for the rappers’ respective claims on artistic freedom. “Everything I spit, shine/Imma get mine, regardless,” says Droog.
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Speaking about the collaboration, Black Thought shares, “Simply complex, this piece is high art. Triple threat. Instant classique.”
While Madlib is gearing up for a brief string of shows with Freddie Gibbs to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their joint album Piñata (secure tickets here), Droog has an album of his own on the horizon.
- 5/1/2024
- by Mary Siroky
- Consequence - Music
There are several moments on Four Tet’s new album Three that sound like Aphex Twin B-Sides, which is less a sign of a lack of imagination but instead, proof of how widespread a particular take on ambient music has become. Maybe chalk it up to YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, the platform is awash in hour-long mixes of Aphex Twin tracks on loop (sometimes accompanied by a video of a serene-looking monkey relaxing in a lake), designed to play while you focus on work or school, or whatever. Four Tet...
- 3/19/2024
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are reuniting for a 10th anniversary tour in celebration of their classic joint album, Piñata.
MadGibbs have initially only scheduled dates in Boston, New York City, and Chicago throughout May, but a press release teases “more coming soon.” The duo will be backed by El Michels Affair, who accompanied them during a 2019 NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Eyedress and Pink Siifu will open on select dates.
A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Tuesday, January 23rd (use access code Spotlight) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, January 26th via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
After dropping Piñata in 2014, Gibbs and Madlib followed up with 2019’s Bandana. Read why...
MadGibbs have initially only scheduled dates in Boston, New York City, and Chicago throughout May, but a press release teases “more coming soon.” The duo will be backed by El Michels Affair, who accompanied them during a 2019 NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Eyedress and Pink Siifu will open on select dates.
A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Tuesday, January 23rd (use access code Spotlight) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, January 26th via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
After dropping Piñata in 2014, Gibbs and Madlib followed up with 2019’s Bandana. Read why...
- 1/22/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
The Barcelona-based music festival Primavera Sound will return in 2024 with headlining performances from Lana Del Rey, Sza, and Pulp. The event is scheduled to take place between May 29 and June 2, with additional appearances from Disclosure, FKA Twigs, Justice, Mitski, The National, Phoenix, and more.
The lineup also features performances from Pj Harvey, Vampire Weekend, Arca, Beth Gibbons, Bikini Kill, Charli Xcx, Clipse, Deftones, Jai Paul, Kim Petras, Omar Apollo, Peggy Gou, Rels B, Troye Sivan, 070 Shake, Amyl and the Sniffers. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib will deliver a special anniversary performance celebrating 10 years of Piñata,...
The lineup also features performances from Pj Harvey, Vampire Weekend, Arca, Beth Gibbons, Bikini Kill, Charli Xcx, Clipse, Deftones, Jai Paul, Kim Petras, Omar Apollo, Peggy Gou, Rels B, Troye Sivan, 070 Shake, Amyl and the Sniffers. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib will deliver a special anniversary performance celebrating 10 years of Piñata,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Primavera Sound has revealed its 2024 lineup with headliners Lana Del Rey, Pulp, and Sza, plus Pj Harvey, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, FKA twigs, Mitski, Vampire Weekend, The National, Phoenix, Clipse, Bikini Kill, Charli Xcx, Deftones, Jai Paul, Disclosure, and Justice.
The annual festival takes place May 29th – June 2nd, 2024 at Parc Del Forum in Barcelona, Spain.
Other notable acts include BadBadNotGood, Troye Sivan, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, The Lemon Twigs, Voxtrot, Ethel Cain, Yo La Tengo, Romy, The Armed, Shellac, L’Imperatrice, Arca, Chelsea Wolfe, Amyl and the Sniffers, Dogstar, Mannequin Pussy, Julie Byrne, Lambchop, Billy Woods, A.G. Cook, The Last Dinner Party, Faye Webster, Mount Kimbie, Blonde Redhead, and Royel Otis, among others. See the lineup poster below.
General admission and VIP passes to Primavera Sound 2023 go on sale beginning Thursday, November 23rd. Registration for access to the ticket on-sale is now ongoing.
Beginning later this week, Primavera Sound will...
The annual festival takes place May 29th – June 2nd, 2024 at Parc Del Forum in Barcelona, Spain.
Other notable acts include BadBadNotGood, Troye Sivan, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, The Lemon Twigs, Voxtrot, Ethel Cain, Yo La Tengo, Romy, The Armed, Shellac, L’Imperatrice, Arca, Chelsea Wolfe, Amyl and the Sniffers, Dogstar, Mannequin Pussy, Julie Byrne, Lambchop, Billy Woods, A.G. Cook, The Last Dinner Party, Faye Webster, Mount Kimbie, Blonde Redhead, and Royel Otis, among others. See the lineup poster below.
General admission and VIP passes to Primavera Sound 2023 go on sale beginning Thursday, November 23rd. Registration for access to the ticket on-sale is now ongoing.
Beginning later this week, Primavera Sound will...
- 11/21/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Westside Gunn’s critically acclaimed album Pray For Paris came out of a creative stream that took hold of the Griselda co-founder during Paris Fashion Week 2020. He tells Rolling Stone that his new album And Then You Pray For Me, the sequel to Pray For Paris coming on October 13th, came from a similar artistic rush he felt this year.
“I didn’t feel [inspiration] like that since Virgil invited me out there,” he says over the phone. “I wanted to record again. I got the studio and I started making the album.
“I didn’t feel [inspiration] like that since Virgil invited me out there,” he says over the phone. “I wanted to record again. I got the studio and I started making the album.
- 10/9/2023
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
Noname has finally released her second studio album, Sundial. Stream the record below.
Sundial is the proper follow-up to Noname’s 2018 debut LP, Room 25, which Consequence named as one of the top albums of the 2010s. Originally, the 31-year-old rapper was going to release a record entitled Factory Baby in 2019, but she scrapped that album, writing on social media at the time that she may quit music altogether.
Thankfully, she didn’t follow through on that threat, and we get to finally dive into the world of Sundial. Spanning 10 tracks and running just over 30 minutes, the new record is lined with powerful themes and lush with features, including appearances from billy woods, Common, Jay Electronica, Eryn Allen Kane, Jimetta Rose, The Voices of Creation, Ayoni, $ilkMoney, and Stout.
Noname first announced the album last month, and planned on releasing “balloons” as a single, but changed her mind, writing that she...
Sundial is the proper follow-up to Noname’s 2018 debut LP, Room 25, which Consequence named as one of the top albums of the 2010s. Originally, the 31-year-old rapper was going to release a record entitled Factory Baby in 2019, but she scrapped that album, writing on social media at the time that she may quit music altogether.
Thankfully, she didn’t follow through on that threat, and we get to finally dive into the world of Sundial. Spanning 10 tracks and running just over 30 minutes, the new record is lined with powerful themes and lush with features, including appearances from billy woods, Common, Jay Electronica, Eryn Allen Kane, Jimetta Rose, The Voices of Creation, Ayoni, $ilkMoney, and Stout.
Noname first announced the album last month, and planned on releasing “balloons” as a single, but changed her mind, writing that she...
- 8/11/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
More than one year after its release, Black Star have made their long-awaited comeback album, No Fear of Time, available outside of the Luminary podcast network.
Originally released in May 2022 as a Luminary exclusive, No Fear of Time marked the first proper full-length from the duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (f.k.a. Mos Def) in 24 years. It was produced entirely by their frequent collaborator Madlib.
Stream it below or purchase a digital copy via Bandcamp.
Black Star teased their sophomore album for years; back in 2019, Kweli even said the record was finished. Last year, the duo launched their podcast The Midnight Miracle with their good friend Dave Chappelle. An episode called “Bugs Bunny Mathematicx” took the role of “audio liner notes to introduce the album,” as the podcast’s hosts discussed No Fear of Time more in-depth.
“About three-four years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe...
Originally released in May 2022 as a Luminary exclusive, No Fear of Time marked the first proper full-length from the duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (f.k.a. Mos Def) in 24 years. It was produced entirely by their frequent collaborator Madlib.
Stream it below or purchase a digital copy via Bandcamp.
Black Star teased their sophomore album for years; back in 2019, Kweli even said the record was finished. Last year, the duo launched their podcast The Midnight Miracle with their good friend Dave Chappelle. An episode called “Bugs Bunny Mathematicx” took the role of “audio liner notes to introduce the album,” as the podcast’s hosts discussed No Fear of Time more in-depth.
“About three-four years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe...
- 6/29/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Talib Kweli and Madlib dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for the late-night debut of “Air Quotes,” one of the standout tracks from the rapper-producer team’s recently released collaborative album, Liberation 2.
“Air Quotes” notably features the first collaboration between Kweli and his daughter, Diani, who provides vocals on the track. Both Diani and Kweli’s son, Amani, accompanied their father for the late-night performance. Watch the replay below.
Liberation 2 was also preceded by the album cut “Best Year Ever” before its arrival exclusively on the Luminary podcast network in early March. The long-awaited LP, which follows the duo’s first titular installment from 2007, also boasts a loaded roster of contributors including Q-Tip, Roc Marciano, Westside Gunn, and Mac Miller, posthumously.
Meanwhile, aside from the momentous reunion between Talib Kweli and Madlib, Fallon also recently hosted the hip-hop greats De La Soul, who performed “Stakes Is High” with...
“Air Quotes” notably features the first collaboration between Kweli and his daughter, Diani, who provides vocals on the track. Both Diani and Kweli’s son, Amani, accompanied their father for the late-night performance. Watch the replay below.
Liberation 2 was also preceded by the album cut “Best Year Ever” before its arrival exclusively on the Luminary podcast network in early March. The long-awaited LP, which follows the duo’s first titular installment from 2007, also boasts a loaded roster of contributors including Q-Tip, Roc Marciano, Westside Gunn, and Mac Miller, posthumously.
Meanwhile, aside from the momentous reunion between Talib Kweli and Madlib, Fallon also recently hosted the hip-hop greats De La Soul, who performed “Stakes Is High” with...
- 3/21/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Last year, Maxo took a trip that changed his outlook. It was an ayahuasca ritual, which his mother had recommended as a way of unpacking the intergenerational trauma that forms a backdrop to his music. After drinking the psychoactive and entheogenic brew, Maxo grounded himself in order to begin the healing process — a hallucinogenic gut-check.
“It taught me to almost knock the crust off my heart to return back to love,” says the Southern California rapper, 28. “There’s so many people that walk around this world cold because they’ve shut off hella feelings.
“It taught me to almost knock the crust off my heart to return back to love,” says the Southern California rapper, 28. “There’s so many people that walk around this world cold because they’ve shut off hella feelings.
- 2/23/2023
- by Jaelani Turner-Williams
- Rollingstone.com
Trugoy the Dove, co-founding member of the iconic hip-hop group De La Soul, has died at the age of 54.
A cause of death has not yet been revealed. However, Trugoy was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in recent years. Notably, he did not join fellow De La Soul members Posdnuos and Maseo at last weekend’s Grammys tribute to hip-hop.
Hailing from Long Island, De La Soul is considered one of the most innovative and influential groups in hip-hop history. Trugoy, whose real name was David Jude Jolicoeu, formed the group alongside high school friends Vincent Mason (aka Maseo) and Kelvin Mercer (aka Posdnuos). The trio went on to lead a loose collective of like-minded New York hip-hop groups including A Tribe Called Quest and the Jungle Brothers.
De La Soul’s debut album, 1989’s 3 Feet High and Rising, was unlike anything that had been heard in hip-hop before, with its eclectic mix of samples,...
A cause of death has not yet been revealed. However, Trugoy was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in recent years. Notably, he did not join fellow De La Soul members Posdnuos and Maseo at last weekend’s Grammys tribute to hip-hop.
Hailing from Long Island, De La Soul is considered one of the most innovative and influential groups in hip-hop history. Trugoy, whose real name was David Jude Jolicoeu, formed the group alongside high school friends Vincent Mason (aka Maseo) and Kelvin Mercer (aka Posdnuos). The trio went on to lead a loose collective of like-minded New York hip-hop groups including A Tribe Called Quest and the Jungle Brothers.
De La Soul’s debut album, 1989’s 3 Feet High and Rising, was unlike anything that had been heard in hip-hop before, with its eclectic mix of samples,...
- 2/12/2023
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
When "Moonlight" came out in 2016, it was unlike anything that had come before it. Based on the play, "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film follows Chiron, a young Black man, throughout his childhood and early adult life living in Miami, Florida. It is a movie about many things — masculinity (particularly Black masculinity), sexuality, the way our past affects our future — and it is significant in how it centers Black narratives, treating them with a tenderness that has inspired many Black filmmakers and helped to usher in a long overdue renaissance in Black filmmaking.
But before "Moonlight" won the Oscar for Best Picture, Jenkins had worked on one other film eight years earlier: An indie flick, "Medicine for Melancholy," about a Black couple who, after having a one-night-stand, spend the next day exploring the streets of San Francisco. This film garnered a lot of quiet praise,...
But before "Moonlight" won the Oscar for Best Picture, Jenkins had worked on one other film eight years earlier: An indie flick, "Medicine for Melancholy," about a Black couple who, after having a one-night-stand, spend the next day exploring the streets of San Francisco. This film garnered a lot of quiet praise,...
- 2/5/2023
- by Miyako Pleines
- Slash Film
Freddie Gibbs took the stage to promote his new album oul old eparately on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday.
The Gary, Indiana rapper cruised through “Blackest in the Room” while accompanied by house band, the Roots. He was soon joined by Anderson .Paak on “Feel No Pain,” which features .Paak and Raekwon on the track. The performance was simple yet powerful, with Gibbs commanding the mic with his soulful flow and lyrics chronicling his past.
oul old eparately marked Gibbs’ major label album debut in 2022. The rapper...
The Gary, Indiana rapper cruised through “Blackest in the Room” while accompanied by house band, the Roots. He was soon joined by Anderson .Paak on “Feel No Pain,” which features .Paak and Raekwon on the track. The performance was simple yet powerful, with Gibbs commanding the mic with his soulful flow and lyrics chronicling his past.
oul old eparately marked Gibbs’ major label album debut in 2022. The rapper...
- 1/24/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs and Madlib, or Black Thought and Danger Mouse on Cheat Codes. It makes sense that the classic two-person dynamic is reflected in traditionalist hip-hop — but that’s not the extent of its potential, as trap music ingenue Metro Boomin demonstrated on his recent album, Heroes & Villains.
The 15-track project re-affirms the potential for new terrain within the trap sound.
The 15-track project re-affirms the potential for new terrain within the trap sound.
- 12/7/2022
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
“Walk soft and carry a cro magnum,” Yasiin Bey rapped in “So Be It” — a bar that captured the vibe and vitriol of Black Star’s ferocious Saturday Night Live debut.
Rap duo Talib Kweli and Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) received a hero’s welcome in Studio 8H. Dave Chappelle, who co-hosts The Midnight Miracle podcast with both Kweli and Bey, introduced “Brooklyn’s finest rappers” with love and extreme pride.
Black Star performed two new songs, “The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing” and “So Be It,...
Rap duo Talib Kweli and Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) received a hero’s welcome in Studio 8H. Dave Chappelle, who co-hosts The Midnight Miracle podcast with both Kweli and Bey, introduced “Brooklyn’s finest rappers” with love and extreme pride.
Black Star performed two new songs, “The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing” and “So Be It,...
- 11/13/2022
- by Sarah Grant
- Rollingstone.com
PinkPantheress is talking about the time she produced a beat for a friend and tried to make it “as Kaytranada-inspired as possible.” It’s a sweet story, especially since the person she’s telling it to is Kaytranada himself.
“I want to hear it, I want to see how it turned out,” he responds.
PinkPantheress quickly shuts down the idea: “It’s fucking terrible.” Then they both break into laughter.
The two artists teamed up for the first time recently for a new track, due in November. This collaboration is fitting,...
“I want to hear it, I want to see how it turned out,” he responds.
PinkPantheress quickly shuts down the idea: “It’s fucking terrible.” Then they both break into laughter.
The two artists teamed up for the first time recently for a new track, due in November. This collaboration is fitting,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Tara Catherine Reid
- Rollingstone.com
At the center of Freddie Gibbs’ oul old eparately is “Rabbit Vision,” which finds him regretting moments in his life. “Me and Jeezy haven’t spoken in years, but I got love for him/Coulda talked it out, but I spoke out, I let it get to me,” he raps, offering an olive branch to the man who signed him in 2011 before the two had a very public falling-out. As a lush beat from Boi-1da, Jahaan Sweet, and Roget Chahayed winds down, an answering-machine service for the Triple S Hotel Resort & Casino chimes in.
- 9/30/2022
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs has previewed his forthcoming major label debut with a fast-talking new single “Too Much,” which features Moneybagg Yo. Gibbs will release his long-awaited album, oul old eparately, on Sept. 30 via Warner Records.
“Too Much” arrives alongside a casino-themed music video, directed by Jmp, which sees Gibbs and Moneybagg Yo living the high life. The clip exemplifies the track’s theme of overconsumption as Gibbs raps, “All this money that I got/I could never get too much.”
oul old eparately marks Gibbs’ major label album debut. The rapper...
“Too Much” arrives alongside a casino-themed music video, directed by Jmp, which sees Gibbs and Moneybagg Yo living the high life. The clip exemplifies the track’s theme of overconsumption as Gibbs raps, “All this money that I got/I could never get too much.”
oul old eparately marks Gibbs’ major label album debut. The rapper...
- 9/2/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
In 1998, the year Black Star made their debut, shameless commercial rappers were the culture’s equivalent to co-workers who heat up fish in the office microwave. They were guilty of an obvious if prevalent faux pas that probably felt too good to abandon just for propriety’s sake. But Mos Def and Talib Kweli captivated the underground with their Boogie Down Productions–sampling single, “Definition,” whose charming raggamuffin vibes felt refreshingly organic—something like a soul-clearing sage to purify the bad stench on the scene.
The duo’s 13-track LP,...
The duo’s 13-track LP,...
- 5/6/2022
- by Will Dukes
- Rollingstone.com
When Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey announced that their long-delayed, highly anticipated new album, No Fear of Time, was to be released through Luminary’s podcasting network, the news signaled an impossible-to-ignore, best-of-both-worlds scenario.
In choosing to distribute their follow-up to 1998’s Talib Kweli and Mos Def Are Black Star through Luminary, where they also host The Midnight Miracle podcast along with Dave Chappelle, the beloved Nineties duo are embracing a broad-minded and fan-focused model for this eager age of merchandise bundles. And despite Luminary’s 2.99 subscription fee, the release...
In choosing to distribute their follow-up to 1998’s Talib Kweli and Mos Def Are Black Star through Luminary, where they also host The Midnight Miracle podcast along with Dave Chappelle, the beloved Nineties duo are embracing a broad-minded and fan-focused model for this eager age of merchandise bundles. And despite Luminary’s 2.99 subscription fee, the release...
- 5/4/2022
- by Will Dukes
- Rollingstone.com
Black Star’s first new album in nearly 25 years, No Fear of Time, has arrived, via subscription podcast platform Luminary, and with it comes the hip-hop super duo’s free-to-watch lyric video for “o.G.”
On the new song, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli trade verses, with Bey holding down the chorus. The pair layout the “truth” that is “everlasting” through their respective parables. “The parable of the talented, each generation,” Bey raps. “The wonders and the wealth of all nations/Is really chump change once you...
On the new song, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli trade verses, with Bey holding down the chorus. The pair layout the “truth” that is “everlasting” through their respective parables. “The parable of the talented, each generation,” Bey raps. “The wonders and the wealth of all nations/Is really chump change once you...
- 5/3/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Black Star, the acclaimed and long-dormant hip-hop super duo of Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli, have reunited for their first new album in nearly a quarter-century… but you’ll have to be a subscriber of the podcast network Luminary to hear it.
On May 3, Black Star will release their much-anticipated second LP No Fear of Time — the duo’s first since their 1998 self-titled debut album — exclusively on Luminary, along with new episodes of The Midnight Miracle, a podcast featuring Bey, Kweli and Dave Chappelle; the first two...
On May 3, Black Star will release their much-anticipated second LP No Fear of Time — the duo’s first since their 1998 self-titled debut album — exclusively on Luminary, along with new episodes of The Midnight Miracle, a podcast featuring Bey, Kweli and Dave Chappelle; the first two...
- 4/8/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs has enlisted Rick Ross for his new single, “Ice Cream.” The Kenny Beats-produced track gives a new spin on the sample RZA employed for Raekwon’s song of the same name, which appeared on 1995’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
Mirroring the opening of Raekwon’s video for the original track, Gibbs visual features him riding around town in an ice cream truck filled with women enjoying frozen treats. Ross joins the wintry party, where he pops champagne, and celebrates being on top of the game.
“Dope feen got...
Mirroring the opening of Raekwon’s video for the original track, Gibbs visual features him riding around town in an ice cream truck filled with women enjoying frozen treats. Ross joins the wintry party, where he pops champagne, and celebrates being on top of the game.
“Dope feen got...
- 4/1/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
“I’m still takin’ my shit/Parking my whip/Now I’m adjusting my fit,” raps Richmond, Virginia’s Fly Anakin on “No Dough,” a breakneck 90-second tour through everything that makes him a deeply exciting Mc. Pitted with an adventurous, funk-pumped Madlib beat, Anakin raps in a high-pitched cadence, sort of like Az if he’d won a science contest in fifth grade. Madlib described Anakin as “one of the illest MCs,” and on “No Dough,” you hear what he means. Anakin’s commanding without ever raising his voice.
- 3/30/2022
- by Jayson Buford
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs and Jadakiss have teamed up for new song “Black Illuminati.” The rappers previously linked up on 2013’s “Own Thing (Remix) and 2012’s “Krazy,” which also features Jay Rock, from Gibbs’ Baby Face Killa mixtape.
In the accompanying video, the pair hang out in a mansion and take a drive around town at night as they reflect on their journeys. “They wanna take me out this game like Sha’Carri,” Gibbs raps. “Black Illuminati, touch Big Rabbit, streets need a body.” On Jadakiss verse, he raps: “Smoke a fat...
In the accompanying video, the pair hang out in a mansion and take a drive around town at night as they reflect on their journeys. “They wanna take me out this game like Sha’Carri,” Gibbs raps. “Black Illuminati, touch Big Rabbit, streets need a body.” On Jadakiss verse, he raps: “Smoke a fat...
- 11/19/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Drake waits until the second half of Certified Lover Boy to deploy the gloomy R&b bomb that has been one of his most reliable weapons since Take Care. That album included “Marvins Room,” which found Drake drunk at a club plotting the pettiest of revenges — calling his ex and smearing her new boyfriend. The dynamic is reversed on Certified Lover Boy‘s “Race My Mind:” This time, the object of Drake’s interest is out “all night dancin'” and “coming home intoxicated” — if she comes home at all. Drake...
- 9/7/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Yasiin Bey offered a frank assessment on the status of the new Black Star record, saying it’ll arrive when he and Talib Kweli are ready for it to arrive, and no sooner, during an appearance on Kweli’s People’s Party podcast.
The follow up to the duo’s celebrated, and so far only, album — 1998’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star — has been in the works for years, with news that lauded beatmaker Madlib was producing the entire album stoking the anticipation. When Kweli brought up...
The follow up to the duo’s celebrated, and so far only, album — 1998’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star — has been in the works for years, with news that lauded beatmaker Madlib was producing the entire album stoking the anticipation. When Kweli brought up...
- 6/21/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, and Tyler, the Creator are set to headline the 2021 Day N Vegas festival, which will take place November 12th through 14th at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
Lamar’s set was billed in a press release as his only live performance of 2021. The billing on the festival poster also suggests Lamar’s performance will be a retrospective of sorts, rather than a chance to debut or tease any long-awaited new music (“From Section.80 to Damn,” the poster reads, referencing Lamar’s first and latest album).
Along with the headliners,...
Lamar’s set was billed in a press release as his only live performance of 2021. The billing on the festival poster also suggests Lamar’s performance will be a retrospective of sorts, rather than a chance to debut or tease any long-awaited new music (“From Section.80 to Damn,” the poster reads, referencing Lamar’s first and latest album).
Along with the headliners,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The rapper 454 talks with a respectful cool, like the zenned-out busdriver Otto from The Simpsons. On a recent Zoom call, he punctuates sentences with an enthusiastic “Yeah, man.” But while the New York-by-way-of Florida Mc makes the kind of lush, atmospheric music a stoner like Otto might appreciate, there’s nothing careless about his approach.
Born Willie Wilson, 454 matches his ethereal production with a flow that’s equally rooted in clouds of smoke and real emotion. His debut, 4Real, arrived in March and presented a fully realized vision of an artist firmly in his element.
Born Willie Wilson, 454 matches his ethereal production with a flow that’s equally rooted in clouds of smoke and real emotion. His debut, 4Real, arrived in March and presented a fully realized vision of an artist firmly in his element.
- 6/2/2021
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
MadGic, a collaboration between Logic and the producer Madlib, have released their second single “Raddest Dad.”
The new track follows “Mars Only Pt. 3,” a surprise release in April given the Logic’s “retirement.” The artwork for “Raddest Dad” features Logic and his son on the cover, with the rapper proclaiming at the song’s end, “When you grow up in the hood without a male role model / And your momma turn to the bottle / Give a damn about status, who the baddest / I just wanna be the raddest dad as I can be.
The new track follows “Mars Only Pt. 3,” a surprise release in April given the Logic’s “retirement.” The artwork for “Raddest Dad” features Logic and his son on the cover, with the rapper proclaiming at the song’s end, “When you grow up in the hood without a male role model / And your momma turn to the bottle / Give a damn about status, who the baddest / I just wanna be the raddest dad as I can be.
- 5/22/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Logic and Madlib have revealed their new collaboration dubbed MadGic, with the “retired” rapper and the acclaimed producer dropping the duo’s first track “Mars Only Pt. 3” Friday night.
As hinted on the introductory track, the pair worked on entire album together during the Covid-19 lockdown, although details of the LP have not been announced.
“Logic and Madlib is MadGic, your catalog tragic / Fuck a underground, fuck a pop sound /Made this whole album in a lockdown, hip hop is our town,” Logic proclaims on the track before name-checking Madvillain,...
As hinted on the introductory track, the pair worked on entire album together during the Covid-19 lockdown, although details of the LP have not been announced.
“Logic and Madlib is MadGic, your catalog tragic / Fuck a underground, fuck a pop sound /Made this whole album in a lockdown, hip hop is our town,” Logic proclaims on the track before name-checking Madvillain,...
- 4/24/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In our Q&a series Last Call, we get down to the bottom of every last thing with some of our favorite celebs - from the last time they were starstruck to the last song they listened to. This week, William Jackson Harper takes our call.
William Jackson Harper first gained critical acclaim for his role as the dorky but lovable Chidi on NBC's The Good Place, and now he's going full rom-com leading man with his latest film, We Broke Up. The film, which also stars The Boys actress Aya Cash, follows a long-term couple named Lori and Doug who decide to call it quits. The only trouble is that their breakup comes right before Lori's little sister's wedding. In an effort to keep the peace, the two decide to pretend they're still together until the wedding weekend is over. What could go wrong, right?
"Going through the...
William Jackson Harper first gained critical acclaim for his role as the dorky but lovable Chidi on NBC's The Good Place, and now he's going full rom-com leading man with his latest film, We Broke Up. The film, which also stars The Boys actress Aya Cash, follows a long-term couple named Lori and Doug who decide to call it quits. The only trouble is that their breakup comes right before Lori's little sister's wedding. In an effort to keep the peace, the two decide to pretend they're still together until the wedding weekend is over. What could go wrong, right?
"Going through the...
- 4/22/2021
- by Kelsie Gibson
- Popsugar.com
Three years ago, Leon Michels found himself enamored with a house in Rhinebeck, a bucolic town nestled on the east side of the Hudson River a little less than 2 hours north of New York City. The multi-instrumentalist and producer, best known for his work as the leader of the elegant retro-soul band El Michels Affair, had spent the majority of his life in the relentless churn of the New York music scene, and he wasn’t sure if he was ready to head to the suburbs. “We were sort of just messing around,...
- 3/26/2021
- by T.M. Brown
- Rollingstone.com
Eothen “Egon” Alapatt was out on a bike ride in Big Sur, California on New Year’s Eve when the news broke that Daniel Dumile, the rapper who performed as Mf Doom, had died two months earlier. Dumile’s death set off shock waves in the music community; but for Alapatt, who put together one of Dumile’s most celebrated and critically acclaimed projects — the 2004 collaboration with beloved, equally elusive hip-hop producer Madlib known as Madvillain — the loss was personal.
“My phone just exploded and I started going through it and I was like,...
“My phone just exploded and I started going through it and I was like,...
- 3/17/2021
- by Jason Newman
- Rollingstone.com
Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks for January include Colombian pop star Maluma’s Jamaican detour, a brilliant new LP from hip-hop innovator Madlib and great post-punk from Pom Poko and Goat Girl.
Maluma, #7 DJ: 7 Dias En Jamaica
The Colombian star worked with Jamaican artists to create an organic LP that never feels like musical tourism. Though the island’s legendary dancehall producer Bobby Digital is responsible for the dembow riddim that came to define reggaetón, Maluma...
Maluma, #7 DJ: 7 Dias En Jamaica
The Colombian star worked with Jamaican artists to create an organic LP that never feels like musical tourism. Though the island’s legendary dancehall producer Bobby Digital is responsible for the dembow riddim that came to define reggaetón, Maluma...
- 2/2/2021
- by Jon Dolan, Claire Shaffer, Brenna Ehrlich, Jonathan Bernstein, Jeff Ihaza, Danny Schwartz, Dewayne Gage, Brittany Spanos and Gary Suarez
- Rollingstone.com
In his 1996 documentary The Last Angel of History, filmmaker John Akomfrah creates a fictional character to explore the enduring and connected threads of Afrofuturism in Black music, from Parliament Funkadelic to Detroit Techno. A time-traveling figure called “The Data Thief” digs through the past for clues about the future, connecting tendrils of ideas from disparate genres and histories to create something wholly original. Back in the real world, the musician Madlib, born Otis Jackson Jr., was doing the same thing. By the mid-Nineties, his Crate Diggas Palace collective was hard...
- 2/1/2021
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke paid tribute to Mf Doom on social media Saturday following news of the enigmatic rapper’s death at the age of 49.
“I am so sad to hear Mf Doom’s passing,” Yorke tweeted. “He was a massive inspiration to so many of us, changed things.. for me the way he put words was often shocking in [its] genius, using stream of consciousness in a way I’d never heard before.”
Yorke has made rare appearances on hip-hop releases over his career, including — with bandmate Jonny Greenwood — contributing...
“I am so sad to hear Mf Doom’s passing,” Yorke tweeted. “He was a massive inspiration to so many of us, changed things.. for me the way he put words was often shocking in [its] genius, using stream of consciousness in a way I’d never heard before.”
Yorke has made rare appearances on hip-hop releases over his career, including — with bandmate Jonny Greenwood — contributing...
- 1/2/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
MF Doom, the mysterious rapper known for impossibly intricate rhyme schemes and his signature mask, has died at the age of 49. The news was first posted by his wife, Jasmine, on the rapper’s Instagram page. Richie Abbott, MF Doom’s rep, confirmed the rapper’s death to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Abbott confirmed that the rapper, whose real name was Daniel Dumile, died on October 31st of this year, but his family did not disclose news of his death until Thursday evening.
“The greatest husband,...
“The greatest husband,...
- 12/31/2020
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
Madlib has released a new song, “Road of the Lonely Ones,” from his upcoming album, Sound Ancestors, which he made with Four Tet.
“Road of the Lonely Ones” is simple but immersive track built around vocals that seem pulled from some forgotten soul 45 gathering dust in a crate. Madlib and Four Tet craft a steady groove of dusty drums and tender guitar lines that drift underneath the lead falsetto and warm backing vocals.
Four Tet announced Sound Ancestors in an Instagram post Sunday, December 13th. The pair had begun the...
“Road of the Lonely Ones” is simple but immersive track built around vocals that seem pulled from some forgotten soul 45 gathering dust in a crate. Madlib and Four Tet craft a steady groove of dusty drums and tender guitar lines that drift underneath the lead falsetto and warm backing vocals.
Four Tet announced Sound Ancestors in an Instagram post Sunday, December 13th. The pair had begun the...
- 12/14/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In 2020, disbelief is rare: Once-in-a-lifetime pandemics have a way of making even the most outlandish news seem unimpressive. Yet when Westside Gunn — a Buffalo rapper who channels 90s New York hip-hop of yore — released the tracklist for his latest album, Pray For Paris, fans were bewildered. In the production credits, alongside some of the most in-demand names names in hip-hop (DJ Premier, Alchemist, Tyler, The Creator) was a man named Jay Versace.
If you don’t know the 22-year-old’s name, you’ve likely seen his face. In 2014, his cherubic cheeks,...
If you don’t know the 22-year-old’s name, you’ve likely seen his face. In 2014, his cherubic cheeks,...
- 5/12/2020
- by Charles Holmes
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs tries to get back into the drug game in the new video for “Giannis,” the latest clip (featuring Anderson .Paak) off the rapper’s LP with Madlib, Bandana. The “Giannis” video was directed by Nick Walker and M. Corey Whitted, and continues the story started in the 2014 video for “Thuggin” — off Gibbs and Madlib’s debut Piñata — and resumed in the more recent video for Bandana cut “Crime Pays.”
“Giannis” opens with a flashback scene in which Gibbs is forced to stand down while his partner cuts a...
“Giannis” opens with a flashback scene in which Gibbs is forced to stand down while his partner cuts a...
- 7/22/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Brown’s new LP Indigo debuted atop Rolling Stone‘s Top 200 Albums chart, with the singer’s ninth studio album compiled a total of 110,000 album units in its first week of release.
The 32-song Indigo, Brown’s follow-up to 2017’s similarly expansive Heartbreak on a Full Moon, was propelled to the top spot by 34,000 copies sold as well as over 90 million streams following its June 28th release.
The Black Keys’ “Let’s Rock” also bowed inside the Top 10 as the rock duo’s latest earned more than 47,000 album units.
The 32-song Indigo, Brown’s follow-up to 2017’s similarly expansive Heartbreak on a Full Moon, was propelled to the top spot by 34,000 copies sold as well as over 90 million streams following its June 28th release.
The Black Keys’ “Let’s Rock” also bowed inside the Top 10 as the rock duo’s latest earned more than 47,000 album units.
- 7/10/2019
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are two larger-than-life figures who carry diametric mystiques. Gibbs is the Rust Belt hero, the world-beating outlaw who bathes with snakes and has been serving impregnable street raps since 2009. Madlib is much more elusive but no less prolific—the perpetually shroomed-out producer who spends his days mining obscure samples from his vast record library that, as of 2014, weighed an estimated four tons. He is the closest thing in hip hop to an actual wizard.
Piñata, Gibbs and Madlib’s 2014 joint album, proved them to be a match made in heaven.
Piñata, Gibbs and Madlib’s 2014 joint album, proved them to be a match made in heaven.
- 6/28/2019
- by Danny Schwartz
- Rollingstone.com
In the decade or so since Stephen Ellison released his breakout Los Angeles LP, he’s established himself as hip-hop’s headiest auteur, a maximalist Brian Eno for the medical marijuana age whose meteor-storm productions triangulate funk, electronica, and assorted jazz fusions, and are attached to out-there film projects and a live show that updates the psychedelic eye candy of golden-age Pink Floyd. Flying Lotus beats have rootstock in West Coast strains (Madlib, the Stones Throw Records school, the Dr. Dre – Snoop Dogg G-funk axis). The Midwest is in there,...
- 5/23/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Flying Lotus and Denzel Curry have teamed to complete the latter’s “Black Balloons” song trilogy with “Black Balloons Reprise,” set to appear on FlyLo’s new album, Flamagra, out May 24th via Warp.
On Twitter, Curry wrote, “The trilogy is complete,” acknowledging the song’s place among his two TA1300 tracks “Black Balloons” and “The Blackest Balloon.” Like those cuts, “Black Balloons Reprise” finds Curry painting a vivid portrait of depression and pessimism as he spits, “The day the black balloon explodes, we all die/Nobody couldn’t handle the truth,...
On Twitter, Curry wrote, “The trilogy is complete,” acknowledging the song’s place among his two TA1300 tracks “Black Balloons” and “The Blackest Balloon.” Like those cuts, “Black Balloons Reprise” finds Curry painting a vivid portrait of depression and pessimism as he spits, “The day the black balloon explodes, we all die/Nobody couldn’t handle the truth,...
- 5/21/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Travis Scott and Cardi B will headline Jay-z’s curated Made in America festival. In its eighth year, the two-day event takes place Labor Day Weekend, August 31st through September 1st, at Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Juice Wrld, James Blake, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals, Kaskade, Kodak Black, Bazzi, Jorja Smith, Blueface, Pink Sweat$, Jacob Banks, Kaytranada, Grace Carter, Kayzo, Tierra Whack, Roddy Ricch, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Hippie Sabotage, Sg Lewis (DJ Set), MadeinTYO, DaBaby, Amber Mark, Megan Thee Stallion, Kasai, Channel Tres, elephante, Phantoms, Set Mo, 99 Neighbors...
Juice Wrld, James Blake, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals, Kaskade, Kodak Black, Bazzi, Jorja Smith, Blueface, Pink Sweat$, Jacob Banks, Kaytranada, Grace Carter, Kayzo, Tierra Whack, Roddy Ricch, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Hippie Sabotage, Sg Lewis (DJ Set), MadeinTYO, DaBaby, Amber Mark, Megan Thee Stallion, Kasai, Channel Tres, elephante, Phantoms, Set Mo, 99 Neighbors...
- 4/2/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib unveiled another dark-edged track, “Bandana,” featuring Jamaican dancehall star Assassin. The song boasts a sparse beat composed of booming bass drum hits, click-clack percussion and a haunting swirl of choral vocals. The ominous atmosphere provides the perfect canvas for Gibbs and Assassin to tear off a trio of vivid, ruthless verses: “Born a pebble, left the hospital, I was a whole brick,” Gibbs spits, “Passed the package off to Diego, he moved the whole shit.”
“Bandana” will appear on Gibbs and Madlib’s upcoming album of the same name,...
“Bandana” will appear on Gibbs and Madlib’s upcoming album of the same name,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Freddie Gibbs goes on an absolute tear on his latest collaboration with producer Madlib, “Flat Tummy Tea.” The song clocks in at a quick two-and-a-half minutes, with Madlib splitting the track in two distinct sections, the first a swift, blown-out beat, the second a hazy head-nodder.
Gibbs starts the track in scorched-earth mode and doesn’t let up: He packs in references to the titular detox drink and lean, to the prison industrial complex and the slave trade, tosses in a Spike Lee diss for good measure (“Fuck Spike, he...
Gibbs starts the track in scorched-earth mode and doesn’t let up: He packs in references to the titular detox drink and lean, to the prison industrial complex and the slave trade, tosses in a Spike Lee diss for good measure (“Fuck Spike, he...
- 2/20/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Galt MacDermot, who composed the hit Broadway musicals Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona, died Monday, a day before his 90th birthday. His death was confirmed to Playbill by his granddaughter, though a cause of death was not revealed.
After cutting records in the early part of the Sixties, including the Grammy-winning “African Waltz” for saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, the Montreal-born composer moved to New York. Upon meeting lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado, he began setting their writings to music and the trio eventually created Hair, which opened off-Broadway in...
After cutting records in the early part of the Sixties, including the Grammy-winning “African Waltz” for saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, the Montreal-born composer moved to New York. Upon meeting lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado, he began setting their writings to music and the trio eventually created Hair, which opened off-Broadway in...
- 12/17/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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