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Madvillain
Madvillainy
Stones Throw
Release Date: 3/23/2004
Less is more on progressive hip-hop supergroup’s debut
Reviewed by Jody Rosen
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MF Doom raps like Dr. Seuss turned b-boy: On “Rhinestone Cowboy,” the London-born MC says he’s “known as the grimy limey/Try me/Slimey/ Blimey!/Simply smashing in the fashion that’s timely/Madvillain dashin’ in a beat-rhyme crime spree.” His manic flow has made him an underground hero, and here he joins forces with another of the genre’s stars, producer Madlib. They’ve made a torrid album that marries old-school rap aesthetics to punk-rock concision: brute battle rhymes that fly by without choruses, punch lines every four bars, 22 tracks in 46 minutes. Madlib mixes jazz loops with stranger sounds: a rumbling piano sample, a lurching accordion straight outta Montmartre and the woozy, helium-voiced raps of Madlib’s alter ego, Quasimoto. Cartoonish and warped, this is rap seen through a funhouse mirror.
DOWNLOAD THESE “Accordion,” “America’s Most Blunted,” “Money Folder”
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