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Madvillain

experimental hip hop alternative hip hop jazz rap

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Madvillain is yet another collaboration by Stones Throw big shot <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a>, this time with masked MC <a href="spotify:artist:2pAWfrd7WFF3XhVt9GooDL">MF Doom</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a>, who had been listening to <a href="spotify:artist:2pAWfrd7WFF3XhVt9GooDL">Doom</a>'s Operation: Doomsday (1999), was impressed by the MC's lyrics and beats and contacted <a href="spotify:artist:2pAWfrd7WFF3XhVt9GooDL">Doom</a> to talk about the possibility of working together. Though <a href="spotify:artist:2pAWfrd7WFF3XhVt9GooDL">Doom</a> had never heard of <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a> at that point, as soon as he heard the DJ's work he agreed immediately. The two met up in 2002 at the Stones Throw headquarters in Los Angeles and instantly clicked. <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a> introduced Madvillain to the world in 2002 at the Red Bull Music Academy in Brazil, and in 2004 Madvillainy, the completed record, was released, and was one of the more critically acclaimed albums of the year. ~ Marisa Brown, Rovi

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