Madlib

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Madlib (2005)
Madlib (2005)
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Albums
Pinata (with Freddie Gibbs )
  US 39 04/05/2014 (1 week)
Bandana (with Freddie Gibbs)
  DE 82 08/02/2019 (1 week)
  CH 30th 07/07/2019 (2 weeks)
  UK 88 07/11/2019 (1 week)
  US 21st 07/13/2019 (3 weeks)

Madlib (born October 24, 1973 in Oxnard , California ; real name Otis Jackson Jr. ) is a Los Angeles- based DJ , producer , rapper and multi-instrumentalist. He appears under a variety of pseudonyms, including Quasimoto , Yesterdays New Quintet , The Loopdigga , DJ Rels or The Beat Konducta , as well as a group member of Lootpack . Likewise, Madlib worked with various artists under other names, such as together with MF DOOM as Madvillain or with J Dilla as Jaylib . His extremely diverse repertoire of styles includes a wide range of jazz , funk , soul and hip-hop to Brazilian music . Madlib's younger brother Oh No is also a rapper and producer.

biography

Jackson grew up as the child of musicians Otis and Seneca Jackson in Oxnard , Southern California. He moved to Los Angeles early on because there was no hip-hop scene in Oxnard that he could relate to. Later he met Peanut Butter Wolf , who promptly gave him a contract and did not set any limits in terms of creativity. He had his first release as a very awkward MC on the maxi "Throw 'Em Up" by the group Hood 2 No Good . The first major releases were as an MC and producer for Lootpack.

His first album release in 2000 under the name Quasimoto, The Unseen , caused a sensation among critics. During the creation he rapped over slowed beats, the recording was later accelerated again so that his voice sounds artificially high and fast. Madlib said in an interview with hip-hop magazine Juice that his friends jokingly call him "Hip-hop's Barry White " because of his deep voice . Since he didn't particularly like his natural pitch himself, he came up with the idea of ​​pitching it.

In 2001 came the first album, which still had hip hop elements, but is basically a jazz album. As Yesterdays New Quintet , he released Angles Without Edges . According to the cover, the group consists of five members: Ahmad Miller, Monk Hughes, Malik Flavors, Joe McDuphrey, and Otis Jackson Jr., his real name. He later used the fictional musicians to record tribute albums for other artists under their names.

Madlib and J Rocc in Cologne 2003

As a DJ he released a collection of old dub and reggae tracks ( Blunted in the Bomb Shelter ) in 2002 and a remix of Blue Note Records releases ( Shades of Blue ) in 2003 . Two hip-hop collaborations followed in the same year. Once with J Dilla as Jaylib and with MF DOOM as Madvillain , the second being more commercially successful and also gaining greater approval from critics.

Piñata , a collaboration album with rapper Freddie Gibbs, followed in March 2014 .

Discography (selection)

  • Lootpack - Ill Psyche Move (EP) (1995)
  • Lootpack - The Anthem (EP) (1998)
  • Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote (1999)
  • Quasimoto - The Unseen (2000)
  • Madlib - Madlib Remixes (EP) (2000)
  • Yesterdays New Quintet - Elle's Theme (EP) (2001)
  • Yesterdays New Quintet - Uno Esta (EP) (2001)
  • Yesterdays New Quintet - Angles Without Edges (2001)
  • Declaime - Andsoitisaid (8 tracks as producer) (2001)
  • The Loopdigga - The Beat Conductor Double 7 "(2001)
  • Quasimoto - Astronaut (EP) (2002)
  • Joe McDuphrey Experience - Experience (EP) (2002)
  • Madlib - Blunted in the Bomb Shelter Mix (Mix) (2002)
  • Ahmad Miller - Ahmad's First (EP) (2003)
  • Yesterdays New Quintet - Suite for Weldon (EP) (2003)
  • Wildchild - Secondary Protocol (6 tracks as producer) (2003)
  • Madlib - Shades of Blue (2003)
  • Dudley Perkins - A Lil 'Light (as producer) (2003)
  • Jaylib - Champion Sound (2003)
  • Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
  • Yesterdays New Quintet - Stevie (2004)
  • Malik Flavors - Ugly Beauty (EP) (2004)
  • Quasimoto - The Unseen (LP) (2004)
  • Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm - Tribute To Brother Weldon (2004)
  • Oh No - The Disrupt (5 tracks as producer) (2004)
  • Madlib - Madlib Remixes 2 (EP) (2004)
  • Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas (2005)
  • MED - Push Comes To Shove (11 tracks as producer) (2005)
  • Sound Directions - The Funky Side of Life (2005)
  • Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes (2006)
  • Talib Kweli - Liberation (as a producer) (2006)
  • Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol 3 & 4: Beat Konducta in India (2007)
  • Otis Jackson Jr Trio - Jewelz (EP) (2007)
  • Yesterdays New Quintet - Yesterday's Universe (2007)
  • Percee P - Perseverance: The Remix CD (as producer) (2008)
  • Jackson Conti - Sujinho (with Azymuth ) (2008)
  • WLIP AM: KING OF THE WIGFLIP (as producer) (2008)
  • Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol 5 & 6: Dil Cosby & Dil Withers Suite (2008)
  • Strong Arm Steady - In Search Of Stoney Jackson (as producer) (2010)
  • Quasimoto - Yessir, Whatever (2013)
  • Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ hiphopnews.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 6, 2005@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hiphopnews.de  
  3. ↑ Short review of the album "Pinata" on Popshot.Over-Blog.de, April 4, 2014 (accessed April 8, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Madlib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Otis Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hip hop DJ, record producer, and MC
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxnard , California , USA