Heavy Rotation – Madvillain

Madvillain is Producer/DJ Madlib and MC/Producer MF Doom.

Madvillainy is the album.

This is a total underground hip-hop release so it might not trip everyone’s trigger. For me it’s pretty heavenly. I lurve Doom’s flow. The cat is sick. And the beats are way, way out there.

My favorite part? They drop in this sample from an obscure cartoon (and I don’t even know what studio it’s from) that is one of my all-time favorites. It’s about a guy who who dies and is telling his life story to St. Peter. The guy is a hipster from the 40′s (maybe 50′s) and he’s telling his story with all of this goofy lingo. The joke of the cartoon is that we watch what St. Peter is thinking when he hears this crazy story “…I hot footed it across town…but it was raining gats and dogs…he was just feeding her a line….” Well, it’s a great one to me anyway. Along with “The Three Little Bops”, it is one of my favorite cartoons ever. The fact that they would drop such a random sample in there makes Madvilliany a lock for top-10 status for 2004.

Highlights are “Figaro” which showcases MF Doom’s sick, sick flow. And “Shadows of Tomorrow” which features Lord Quas and some of the spaciest work I’ve ever heard from Madlib.

I’ll try to get an example or two up this week if I get a chance. You need to at least try this stuff out.