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- TAV // Essential Listening -

What do you get when two of rap’s most inscrutable and esoteric geniuses decide to become a supervillain duo? A match made in hip-hop heaven. Madvillain, made up of producer Madlib and emcee MF Doom, released their one and only album in 2004 on Stones Throw Records. While we all would have loved more, the strange antihero alchemy on display here could only have been concocted once - simply because Madvillainy was so singular.

Inexhaustibly inventive and irrepressibly imaginative, Madlib’s immaculate beats - collaged from psychedelic rock, Brazilian jazz, easy listening and 80s R&B - feels like a fragmented fever dream, narrated over by MF Doom’s clever rhyme schemes and mythical narratives. This phantasmagoria of leftfield chemistry remains unparalleled to this day. - The Analog Vault

Genre: Hip Hop, Rap,