If I were Madlib, I'd complete this cover story in less than 20 minutes. I'd quick-mix a few... Read More

Since 1979, Chris Manak has been maintaining hip hop with its authentic sound, ensuring the tracks he releases... Read More

Love's A Real Thing is a Luaka Bop compilation. Stones Throw Records will be releasing the 2/LP edition.... Read More

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In Jeff Jank's loopy, cut'n'paste mind, Quasimoto is a Kool Aid-red space alien with pointy ears like a... Read More

Two of the most exciting new CD's out of California could be described as underground hip-hop, though they... Read More

Nothing like a sunny, mid-morning in Los Angeles, California. When the smog recedes enough to let the crisp... Read More

Anyone who knows me from my high school days knows I was a Beastie Boys fanatic. This was... Read More

Mad Skills: Madlib's eclectic talent has taken him to all parts of the globe. And it shows in... Read More

Here's the story: On a lonely windswept night about seven years ago in Lost Gates (near Oxnard, Calif.),... Read More

The Further Adventures of Lord Quas ***** (5/5) Madlib's favorite alter-ego Lives the Life we all desire Quasimoto... Read More

If Lord Quas, the bad character, the Astro Traveler, the Unseen, is the subject of this article, then... Read More

WHAT ARE QUASI'S MUSICAL TASTES?"He just listens to the beats - Dilla Beats, Oh No beats. He don't... Read More

Mask of Sorrow The mask must be in the box - one of those black flight cases with... Read More

"Perc is nice, worth the price, every verse entice / one of the most praised men to surface... Read More

As well as being renowned for his own (mighty sharp) beats, Peanut Butter Wolf Is the overseer and... Read More

Like laying out in the sun for too long or taking expired prescription painkillers, the music of Koushik... Read More

Published in Bizarre Magazine, 2005. It is hard to describe the work of Gary Wilson. People have called... Read More

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Something about Gary Wilson is different. Many photos show him wrapped in plastic wrap. “I have always wrapped... Read More

HE'S GOT MORE ALIASES THAN A CIA OPERATIVE, AND HE'S LIVED THROUGH STUFF MANY RAPPERS CAN ONLY RHYME... Read More

AS HIP HOP CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF BEATS AND RHYMES, TIME TO RECOGNISE RAP'S FORGOTTEN NEW ENGLAND HEARTLAND.... Read More

If the essence of Hip Hop music is crate digging and chopping up samples in ways unheard before... Read More

Even Lou Donaldson, Melvin Sparks and Reuben Wilson know: Madlib's the man. Every time this guy steps in... Read More

Workaholic: Constaintly working man, who needs the strain like a drug. Otis Jackson Jr. aka Madlib for example... Read More

In the future, music will have been divided into so many varieties of sub-genres that there will no... Read More

There was a buzz a while ago about a show at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. “You gotta... Read More

You could be forgiven for misjudging Gary Wilson because virtually everything about him seems odd. Take a look... Read More

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Madvillain is a collaboration between Madlib (producer) and MF Doom (MC), two of the most distinctive artists in... Read More