

I classify this is a non-observation or a sub-complaint for several reasons. Some people think there are too many skits. It doesn't necessarily have to make sense to be fun, though that's not really a problem that DOOM has (his stuff frequently makes sense-at least, it does to me, though the fact that my perusal of lyrics at a couple of sites suggested that a number of listeners don't know who Worf is tells me I may be coming from a little bit different area of subject expertise).Ģ.5. Popular music, like any mass artistic medium, is supposed to be entertaining.

I think people that are faulting him for his subject matter have a stick somewhere uncomfortable they need to remove. I honestly don't know what to tell you about that. The thing is that many of those tracks are almost divisible into sub-tracks, with the end result being that most of the vocal snippets (the actual rapping) don't last for more than about a minute at a time.Ģ. Well, that's not quite true-the tracks, as divided by the album listing-are on the short side of average. To address the common complaints, all of which have some validity:ġ. The question is whether that's okay.įor some people, I figure it will probably work out.

There's no question that Madvillainy is not a "normal" hip hop record. In art, sometimes things get produced that are strange and influential, considered within the scope of their origin (Van Gogh, for example), and sometimes things get created that are strange for no good reason and we can only hope aren't influential at all (e.e. Never flashy or glamorous, MADVILLAINY is served straight up, the way hip-hop was meant to be. With both men known for their stunning soundscapes, rhyming skills, and schizophrenic personalities, the duo decided to have Madlib concentrate on the beats and let Doom handle the lyrics.In mixing their comic-book-like personas, Madlib and Doom play to their nearly superhuman strengths while some other collaborations of this caliber seems forced and lop-sided, there is absolutely no filler here-just undiluted beats and rhymes, best exemplified by the singles "America's Most Blunted" and "All Caps." Lib's inventive production leans towards the jazzy side of his repertoire, and Doom unleashes outrageous lyrics on par with his solo efforts (and even his work as Zevlove X in his stint with K.M.D.). Description : Madvillain: Madlib, MF Doom.Additional personnel includes: Lord Quas, M.E.D., Wildchild, Viktor Vaughn, Stacy Epps.Two years in the making, and combining two of the best underground hip-hop artists of the early 2000s, this collaboration between MF Doom and Madlib has been appropriately dubbed MADVILLAINY.
