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Madlib, one of the most prolific producers of the last 20 years, has cooked up classics for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwjwKPXy4sg"><span class="s1">Mos Def</span></a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpaonSDPw7Y"><span class="s1">DOOM</span></a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XykIswFgLpU"><span class="s1">Erykah Badu</span></a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah3zq3qYgoI"><span class="s1">J Dilla</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBrWRrmiYM"><span class="s1">Lootpack</span></a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1kJumnVMA"><span class="s1">Ghostface Killah</span></a>, as well as diverse solo records under aliases such as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NcQic10evk"><span class="s1">Quasimoto</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9p_Fx37-XU"><span class="s1">Beat Konducta</span></a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQoyjwy5QRA"><span class="s1">Yesterdays New Quintet</span></a>. His oblique approach to sampling has influenced everyone from Flying Lotus to Thom Yorke, yet the 40-year-old reckons that the world has only heard 30 per cent of his life’s work, with the rest lying unreleased on tapes and CDs in his LA studio. Next year the Oxnard native plans to make a small but culturally significant dent in his sound archive with the February release of <i>Pinata</i>, a collaboration with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bifjziJzKCE"><span class="s1">Freddie Gibbs</span></a> on his own Madlib Invazion imprint. This will be followed by Mos Def’s Zamrock-inspired new record and, if DOOM can get his act together, a sequel to 2004’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpaonSDPw7Y"><span class="s1"><i>Madvillainy</i></span></a>. The mythologised maverick rarely grants interviews, but made an exception for Dazed as he prepared for a secret London gig.</div>
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<b>Dazed Digital: Do you see yourself as an archivist? The Alan Lomax of the crate digging generation?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Kind of, yeah. I come from the same mind state. I want people to hear music that really wasn’t played much, that got lost in the shuffle. There was tons of music that was greater than the hits but you don’t know about it unless somebody like, like me or whoever brings it to people’s attention. You know, bringing it back to the people that didn’t hear it back then. I’m one of them, there’s hundreds of us [Laughs]. There’s a lot of young kids that I have inspired to go look for old stuff. We do it for the knowledge, for the kids. Even my kids pick up on things so I know it’s working. It’s not supposed to reach everybody but it’s supposed to reach people who want to keep music alive.</div>
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<b>DD: Have your kids ever destroyed any really valuable records?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> They used to! A lot of records have gotten broke, like a $300 hand painted Sun Ra record! Some original copies of Axelrod...</div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> By the time I get to them it’s too late, you know. They don’t understand anyway, they’ll understand when they get older when I tell them, but you just got to take it. I still keep them in my studio though, pieces of records that they’ve broken. That shit hurts, but that’s life <i>(laughs)</i>.</div>
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<b>DD: Can you stand back and objectively look at the impact of your music in a wider historical context?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>That’s for other people to do. I have no idea; we’ll find out later. I hope so, that’s what I meant to do. That’s how you live forever, but time will tell. Maybe I’ll get lost in the shuffle too, you never know.</div>
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<b>DD: Have you ever been tempted to take a big cheque to produce a pop star, like Dilla did with Janet?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> Money’s cool but it’s not all about money. If it was all about money I’d be doing that other thing. But they don’t really come at me, the big cheques don’t really come, I just live comfortable.</div>
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<b>DD: You’ve cultivated such a mythical persona – how do you think the public see you?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Some people think I’m crazy, but I’m just a normal dude that loves music. I’m quiet, so people might think I’m a mute. I’m a hermit, people rarely see me. People can rarely get in contact with me. I barely answer my phone. I’m not tweeting much, I’m not hashtagging and all that. I don’t do selfies. J Dilla and Common called me an alien. We used to call each other aliens because we’re weird. (<i>laughs</i>)</div>
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<b>DD: What kind of aliens would you classify yourselves as?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>African-American aliens.</div>
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Some people think I’m crazy, but I’m just a normal dude that loves music. I’m quiet, so people might think I’m a mute. I’m a hermit, people rarely see me. People can rarely get in contact with me. I barely answer my phone. I’m not tweeting much, I’m not hashtagging and all that. I don’t do selfies.</div>
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<b>DD: You’re a fan of David Icke’s book <i>The Biggest Secret</i>. Do alien reptiles run the world?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Probably. With all this new technology, there’s no way it can move that fast. I think we’re among them, we just don’t know it. There’s different aliens, you know?</div>
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<b>DD: Is there a chance of getting you and David Icke together to do a record? I’ve got the band name sorted: Mad Icke.</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>(<i>laughs</i>) That would be crazy. Let him do some poetry over my stuff, get him to read some pages. Different sounds, from electronic to dirty records. That would be dope.</div>
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Madlib: Kind of, half and half.</div>
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<b>DD: So, what’s your favourite conspiracy theory of all time?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>That’s the biggest secret. I know certain things I can’t talk about. I know a lot of things that I’ll get in trouble talking about.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>(<i>laughs</i>) You crazy. Kind of, yeah. I’m in a little club like that.</div>
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<b>DD: You just joined another club too. Were you scared about turning 40?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Nah, I just don’t want to hear it all the time. I still feel 20. I guess a lot of people feel old when they turn 40. It depends on your mind state and how you keep yourself healthy and how you live. I’m glad to be able to turn 40 because a lot of people I knew weren’t able to do that. </div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>In Oxnard there’s places where you’ll get got. It was pretty rough. People had the mentality where they didn’t think they were going to live that long anyway, so they did a lot of things that eventually caught up with them. There were a lot of people living like criminals, selling drugs and clashing.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Yeah, when I was younger. I had family members that were shooting at each other. Some were Crips and others were Bloods. It was just their mentality. People get brainwashed living in the hood. I stayed away from everyone, I got into my teens and stayed in the crib and made music. They were walking around with Dickies; I was walking around with a clock around my neck listening to Public Enemy and that type of shit. I was the weird dude but I didn’t care. Music saved me: my parents bought us equipment to keep us in the house. It worked.</div>
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I had family members that were shooting at each other. Some were Crips and others were Bloods. It was just their mentality. People get brainwashed living in the hood. I stayed away from everyone, I got into my teens and stayed in the crib and made music.</div>
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<b>DD: You have worked with a lot of MCs who have a gangsta edge. Do you ever give credence to that old cliché that violent lyrics can have deadly repercussions in culture?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> I don’t think so; it depends on your mind. If you’re that stupid or it can control you like that then probably, but I don't think like that and people around me don’t think like that. Well, I hope not! I look at it as a movie. I don’t look at it like, 'yo, he’s really gonna go shoot somebody.’ I don’t think the people that rap like that are living like that. It’s just painting images you know. I don’t ever see any of that going down. You got to treat it like you’re watching the <i>Godfather</i>. If it was really true they probably wouldn’t be making records they would probably be out there doing that.</div>
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<b>DD: It seems like you’re in a race against time to collect all these records that you know deep in your heart you will never have time to listen to. What drives that?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> The love of music. Basically my whole life is music, that’s all I do 24-7. I’m always doing music or listening to music. I’ll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music it’s all in me. I’ll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight. It’s just in me. I wanted to be like a librarian, that’s what the whole goal was. When I die they might look at my record collection like that, you never know.</div>
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<b>DD: Have you ever got the same rush of finding a track online?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> Yeah, all the time I search for records that I’ve found on YouTube. If I can’t get the record it doesn’t matter to me, I’ll bump the YouTube rip. There’s a lot of stuff that I’m not going to find that I’ve found on YouTube.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>I think so. You could put Dilla’s stuff in a book. It might not be in a certain order but I’d get it. You have to really sit there and think about it. A lot of people are used to words, but it can be done. My next Quasimoto record is going to be like that – I’m going to do it like chapters.</div>
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I don’t have anything else to say as a rapper. I had things to say back then, but I’ve heard it all. I’d rather listen to a dude’s beat record than lyrics because there’s only so much you can say.</div>
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<b>DD: You’ve been making records for 20 years. Do you ever get bored of people asking you to play things that you made when you were a kid?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> Yeah, you said it for me. I move on. I can’t even listen to stuff I did last year. I’m already somewhere else. Usually when you hear albums they come out like two or three years after I made them. I’m always doing something different. I’m musically schizophrenic; I get bored quick, so I’m always moving on to something else. A lot of the stuff I do is never going to come out but I do it for myself. It’s challenging for me.</div>
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<b>DD: You once said that you’ve only released 30% of the music you’d made. How much of the remaining 70% of music is actually worth releasing?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> Oh, a lot of it. I think if I recorded it down and left it on tape then, yeah. It’s not for everybody to get. Ten people are going to like that one and not that one. That’s how it’s supposed to be.</div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> It’s up to me. Otherwise I won’t do it. It has to be my way.</div>
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<b>Madlib:</b> Yeah I know what I do. The person listening can’t tell me what I thought. I know what I was thinking when I did it so you can’t really tell me to take this out or do this or that. Nobody can tell me anything about my music. I do it for my health, to listen to something, you know. Even if it doesn’t come out, I don’t care if none of the records come out. I do it for myself. But luckily some people like it.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>People ask me to rap. That’s the last thing I like. I don’t have anything else to say as a rapper. I had things to say back then, but I’ve heard it all. I’d rather listen to a dude’s beat record than lyrics because there’s only so much you can say. </div>
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<b>DD: So you think there’s nothing else to be said in terms of lyricism?</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>For me, as a lyricist. But, people like Danny Brown are doing something different.</div>
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<b>DD: Danny certainly likes yelping. He once got a blowjob live on stage from someone in the audience.</b></div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>There’s nothing wrong with that.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Nah, I wouldn’t do that. I’ve had crazy things go down but I don’t wanna get my dick out onstage. That’s dope he can do that and still keep rapping, all sweaty and shit. I take my hat off to him. Hopefully he didn’t have a sausage in there like some rock stars used to do.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>I’m about to go see him right after this and figure that out. I’m not forcing him to do it. He doesn’t even have to do it; I just want to know where we are at with it because we recorded like, 10, 13 songs, but out of those we probably only used 4, so I want to see how the recordings are going. It’s not close to finished because it has to be a continuation of the last one. It doesn’t have to be better or worse but it has to be a continuation. </div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>That was the favourite time of my life. We were just musical cousins – there wasn’t a whole lot of talking going on because we already thought the same. Just a whole lot of handshaking and eye contact. When Dilla was healthy it was crazy. When he moved to LA we hung out every week, went to clubs, acted crazy, got drunk. I think about him all the time. I always bump his music.</div>
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“I’m gonna burn down my studio before I die. Ain’t nobody exploiting my shit. Don’t think I’m gonna get exploited like they’re doing to Dilla”</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Well, it seems like they’re still putting things out. Sometimes the way he would want it and in some ways he wouldn’t want it. </div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>I'm gonna burn it down before I die, a little Lee Perry action. Ain’t nobody exploiting my shit. If I was dying in hospital I’d tell my son to go and burn it. Don’t think I’m going to get exploited like they’re doing to Dilla. I’m learning from how he’s being treated from some people.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>Yep, I’m fine with that because some of my favourite musicians were like that. I don’t want too many people looking at me. I don’t want somebody to come up and John Lennon me.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>It was called <i>Cocaine Pinata</i>. I don’t know if it’s still called that. It might not sell with ‘Cocaine’ in front of it.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>White Widow, $100 bills and a female.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>I’m from Cali.</div>
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<b>Madlib: </b>(<i>laughs</i>) A musical pimp.</div>
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<b>Quasimoto: The Unseen (2000)</b></div>
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“Quasimoto came about through doing psychedelics, tripping out, and trying to make my voice sound different. So put the record on, throw some shrooms on top of your spaghetti and wash it down with a pint of beer.”</div>
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“I’m sad to say Dilla’s favourite drink was Hawaiian Punch. That was his juice. So drink one of those, smoke a blunt and listen. And eat a pizza or some doughnuts.”</div>
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On January 1, 2014 GeneFlo of The Verbal Image released CURRENT EVENTS. This album is a reflection on 2013 and a projection of what is to come in 2014. The unique aspect of this album is that it is centered on THE BEATS. These are beats that are composed to evoke emotion. You turn this album on and get lost in an experience that is unique to the radio bullshit that you are being force-fed. Rutes and Golden Griffin (also of The Verbal Image) put in stand-out features giving you a taste of what is to come from those two dynamic emcees (Collabo???). Go download NOW at <a href="http://www.theverbalimage.com/">www.TheVerbalimage.com</a> and take a listen. Serene peaceful beats, deep and powerful rhymes, a quality listen all around.</div>
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A few weeks ago my wife and I went with our unborn child to LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). We found this display and enjoyed spending time there. I was so proud to see my tribe's works on display. It was a feeling that was a mix of joy and sorrow. Joy for the recognition of our rich artisan heritage and sorrow for the fact that my people are still struggling to get wifi and a clean toilet. However, direct action with true people helps me maintain. Take a trip to LACMA and check out the Luba exhibit. You'll love it!
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The time is now!!!! So many people are diluting the culture of Hip Hop, by acting like they are "bout that life". Everybody wants to be a superstar. DEAD THAT. I have always been a B Boy. B Boys stay fly, no matter the occasion. I strive to be a master MC. I have been practicing my craft since I was a kid in Detroit at Burton International School at the lunch tables. I am the son of Congolese immigrants and I have complete knowledge of self. We have a non-profit organization that is changing the lives of people everyday (www.lejabulela.org). I teach the youth through direct lessons in the classroom, on the field of sport, or through games and fun at camp. I embody all I do to the fullest. So when you see me shinin' sippin' bubbly with my people come and get some too. Every day is a celebration for me in particular, because the world doesn't want to see a BLACK CONGOLESE succeed in the world. Not all of us are stuck hand mining for jewels we can't keep. I have never been to jail, and I am a college graduate. I am a husband, brother, friend, and soon to be father. I AM ALL THEY DON'T WANT ME TO BE! However, I'm here. While I am here it is my duty to keep the culture pure by sharing foundational knowledge handed down from previous generations. I love that new stuff and can't live without the oldies. Below you will find the guiding principles that I strive to live by. ONE LOVE.<br />
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TEACHINGS OF THE MASTER (Derivative of the "Campfire" Wu Tang skit):<br />
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<span style="font-family: Chalkboard;">Today I’ll talk about kindness, justice, faith
and courage.<br />
I want you to listen carefully,<br />
Kindness and faith; are the foundations,<br />
without them, we can’t become good people,<br />
and with justice, we know we can lead a good life.<br />
How can I be a good man you ask?<br />
First of all, you have to practice honesty,<br />
Keep your temper, never lose control of yourself,<br />
Be patient, and if you learn to do these things, you can master anything.</span></div>
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ZULU NATION PHILOSOPHY<br />
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"The Universal Zulu Nation stands for knowledge, wisdom, understanding,
freedom, justice, equality, peace, unity, love, respect, work, fun,
overcoming the negative, economics, mathematics, science, life, truth
facts, faith, and the oneness of God."<br />
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