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Madlib

Pinata (Instrumentals)

Since the issue of the collaborative album with rapper Freddie Gibbs - Pinata, already being hailed as contender for rap album of the year - Stones Throw issues the beats Madlib created for the project as instrumentals. Piñata put Gibbs in the spotlight, one that a growing audience is finally acknowledging that he deserves. On Piñata Beats, though, it’s Madlib, quietly spinning on the center stage. Through seventeen cuts of arcane film snippets, dusted funk and soul, psych and prog rock musical diversions, Madlib proves to live up to what Gibbs once said of him: “Madlib quite simply, is music.”