Madlib - Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note

On their second collaborative record, 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 intimacy. Fe

The appreciation of Madlib and Freddie Gibbs' collaboration "Piñata" depends on the range of your hip-hop tastes and your familiarity with both artists' deep cuts. Funk-fusion and soul jazz breaks bubble and blister in the heat and Gibbs states the facts