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Piñata is def. one of my favorite non-Kanye, non-Kendrick hip hop albums of the decade. But I'm actually listening it Gibbs a lot less than I once did. Shadow of a Doubt came and went for me pretty goddamn quickly. It's not that I don't like him, and I actually like his take on gangsta rap. He sounds like a slightly more comical 2pac (especially on highlight "Deep").
But nothing he's done is mind blowing. Not even Piñata. That album is simply very solid. Texturally, tonally, musically, it's actually pretty basic. And I'm less and less impressed by anything that isn't aural orgasm inducing.
Still, I'm a Madlib fan from way way back. It's funny to think that there was a time when pretty much nobody knew who he was, but Lootpack's Soundpieces: Da Antidote was my motherfuckin' gold standard back in the day.
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