The head-busting Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs and the brain-expanding California producer Madlib have already teamed up for a series of great songs (“Thuggin’,” “Shame,” “City,” “Deeper, “Harold’s“), and their collaborative album Piñata...

The spacey yet hardscrabble L.A. hip-hop producer Madlib has lent his Midas touch to projects straightlaced (his recent gangster-rap triumphs with Freddie Gibbs), outré (his legendary 2004 Madvillain LP with MF Doom) and in between (his solo material as Quasimoto and the J. Dilla collaboration Jaylib). Along the way, he’s done a lot t...

The unlikely duo of Indiana G-rapper Freddie Gibbs and expansive California producer Madlib first teamed up almost two years ago, and just about everything they’ve made since then has been fire. We won’t get to hear their guest-packed collaborative album Piñata until next year, but they’re still giving us music to ...

Frequent collaborators Freddie Gibbs and Madlib opened up the summer with their track “City” and now close it out with “Deeper,” the anchor track from an EP of the same name they’ll release next week. Deeper is the duo’s third work together, their past collections including 2011&#82...

Earlier this year the great Lord Quas (the alter-ego of Madlib) released a pretty great rarities compilation called Yessir Whatever. Now there’s a video for the track “Catchin’ The Vibe” that features a vinyl crafting garbage man. Now when I say garbage man I don’t mean like a state appointed ref...