Daniel Caesar - CASE STUDY 01

On their second collaborative record 'Bandana', Freddie Gibbs and Madlib pull themselves deeper into one another's worlds. Madlib's beats remain off-kilter, and Gibbs remains gangster, but there's a looseness with 'Bandana,' a spirit of intuition and in

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