Dig On Madvillain's "Madvillainy"

P&B brings you the "Dig On" Classic Album Series.  We'll delve into our vaults to discuss the records that have profoundly impacted our musical tastes.  The albums we present are considered essential to anyone's record collection. In the end, you can't understand the present (or future) until you "Dig On" the past.

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"Spot hot tracks like spot a pair of fat asses

Shots of the scotch from out of square shot glasses

And he won't stop 'til he got the masses

An' show 'em what they know now through flows of hot molasses"

- Lyrics from Madvillain's "ALL CAPS"

My introduction to Madvillain came via CMJ, the must read music magazine/bible for college radio stations, which I read when I was Music Director at CKDJ in Ottawa. My curiosity was tweaked thanks to a picture of a dude wearing a metal mask and the other with a do-rag. The reviews on "Madvillainy" were all decidedly positive. So there I was, the music guy who prides on knowing all that is "cool", puzzled as to why I hadn't picked up this album yet.

New Black Star Track - "You Already Knew"



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Black Star are prepping the release of their highly anticipated new album Black Star Aretha (speculated title). The rec, which is their first since 1998's seminal Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star will be out in the new year and is supposed to have a sort of Aretha Franklin tribute vibe to it (?)

In the meantime, a couple of cuts have surfaced on the interweb for everyone's listening pleasure. First was the Madlib-produced "Fix Up" and now "You Already Knew" which is produced by Oh No.

And in case you missed Paqman's review of Black Star's blazin' hot November 12th performance in Toronto, click right HERE.

Black Star "You Already Knew" by 3DDistro

-Turnbull