![]() ![]() Gibbs and Madlib vowed to release an edgier follow-up. The soul-stirring Piñata, which featured boom-bap masters like Raekwon, Mac Miller, Danny Brown and Earl Sweatshirt, debuted at No. 39 on the Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 7 on the Top Rap Albums chart. ![]() ![]() ![]() MadGibbs dropped two more EPs ( Shame in 2012, Deeper in 2013) before hunkering down on a proper full-length. He and Gibbs first teamed up for their series of joint EPs in 2011, with Thuggin’, which they recorded under the name MadGibbs and released on the producer’s own independent label, Madlib Invazion (the producer himself is signed to Los Angeles indie Stones Throw Records). But the notoriously private producer is most enthralled with Gibbs and his razor-sharp street edge and charisma. Madlib himself boasts an impressive résumé of collaborators, including Kanye West, Erykah Badu and Anderson. The 45-year-old Madlib (real name: Otis Jackson Jr.) was born into a musically inclined family in Oxnard, Calif.: His parents were musicians his uncle is jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and his younger brother, Michael Woodrow Jackson, is rapper-producer Oh No, who has landed production credits for Action Bronson, Mos Def and Talib Kweli. In 2011, the gruff-voiced MC signed to Jeezy’s Corporate Thugz Entertainment label and dropped two projects before exiting in 2013, citing creative differences, to begin his independent label ESGN (Evil Seeds Grow Naturally), on which he finally put out his first full-length of the same name - it reached No. 24 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Yuri HasegawaĪfter he was dropped, Gibbs independently released a flurry of mixtapes including 2009’s acclaimed The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs and 2010’s Str8 Killa EP. Madlib (left) and Gibbs photographed on Apat Rappcats in Los Angeles. ![]()
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