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Otis Jackson Jr., known professionally as Madlib, is a Los Angeles, California-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, MC, and music producer born on October 24, 1973 in Oxnard, Californi
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Sounds like:
Samiyam,
Thundercat,
Madlib
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Aug 16, 2012
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Flying Lotus is a shooting star. It's no hyperbole to say that it's not often that an artist can capture the energy of a generation and match it with musical intelligence. Steve Ellison does that and more. As a solo artist, label head and collaborato...
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Madlib,
Roc Marciano,
Guilty Simpson
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sweeney kovar
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Aug 14, 2012
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House Shoes is dirty. His sound, his hometown, and his music is often mired with grime. His Let It Go LP that dropped earlier this summer was an exemplary demonstration of neck-breaking drums and raw rhymes. In "Dirt," Shoes takes a popular break and...
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sweeney kovar
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Jul 13, 2012
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I usually try to add some context and history to each post, but in this particular occasion Ronnie Reese already wrote it better than I ever could:Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip-hop producer for artists like Common, Slum Vill...
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Jul 11, 2012
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J. Rocc of the legendary Beat Junkies is one of the best DJs on this planet. The Cali-representative is one of the very few turntablists that can seamlessly and naturally segue from hip-hop to break-beats to funk to jazz to Brasillian music and back ...
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Sounds like:
Jaylib,
Madlib,
Slum Village
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sweeney kovar
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Jun 23, 2012
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Exile has spent the last half a decade becoming an elite producer. Able to maneuver comfortably between serious mainstream artists (Bow Wow, Big Sean, Mobb Deep), serious underground artists (Fashawn, Blu) and his own experimentally goofy projects, E...
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Sounds like:
Jaylib,
Madlib,
Slum Village
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Sounds like:
Dangerdoom,
Madlib
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Jason Grishkoff
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May 22, 2012
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While writing up this post, I learned that Oh No is Madlib's brother. The Stones Throw hip-hop artist made his full-length debut back in 2004, and is now gearing up to drop a new one by the title Ohnomite on June 11th.The first track to cross our rad...
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