Mark Ronson and Madlib have utilized samples to create big hits for Bruno Mars, Lizzo, MF Doom, and Freddie Gibbs, but their latest project draws from a more unlikely source of inspiration. The ...

Asking some producers to reveal the records they sampled is tantamount to asking a magician to explain how a trick is performed. There are probably tons of hip-hop nerds around the world wondering ...

MF DOOM and Madlib dropped their classic album Madvilliany exactly 20 years ago. The 22-track project is full of creative rap lyricism at its highest degree, with DOOM using his mad mind to paint lush ...

In the new special "Madlib’s Medicine Show," Noisey documented the moment the iconic producer met the iconic artist he's spent his career sampling and sourcing inspiration from. Madlib has been ...

The “triple lindy” is a physics-defying dive composed of multiple flips completed between several diving boards. Rodney Dangerfield, comically unfit and forever disrespected, “completes” it (with ...

In addition to being one of hip hop’s most influential sample-based producers, Madlib is also among the genre’s most dedicated archivists. There’s a history lesson in the delicate patchwork of his ...

Imagine being granted the ability, just for a day, to hear music the way Madlib does. Imagine listening to practically any record -- '60s psych-rock, '70s Latin funk, a Brazilian jazz joint that's ...

Five years on from his untimately passing, the Supervillain remains anomalous in his ability to stitch and rap over shrouded samples Five years on from his untimely passing, there’s no better way to ...

Sometimes infinitesimal changes to proven formulas still create innovative and remarkably unique works. The fourth song off of Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs’s and producer Madlib’s first full-length ...