BAD neighbor by MED, Blu as well as Madlib

Madlib

When I was a youngster I liked ransom notes constructed out of letters as well as words of different fonts. I liked cutting up magazines as well as making collages out of existing materials. I liked the feel of the pieces in my hands, getting glue on my fingertips, as well as finest of all discovering that a person bit printed fragment that might fill the open area as well as completely fit together with whatever around it. It felt so perfect, even if a great deal of people would look at the exact same paper as well as see madness.

Blu

Today, nobody purchases magazines. many people don’t even purchase CDs or albums
with cover art. even portraits as well as photos as well as books are transmitted as aseries of numbers over the ether. music as well as art ended up being less tactile every day.

Madlib is the man Kanye West would be if West had less money to pay on samples, as well as perhaps was afflicted with Attention

MED

Deficit Disorder.  He speeds up verses as well as voices, he utilizes short cuts as well as splices–dozens of them–layered on top of each other to produce dense walls of music that few rappers can break through.  As I compose this, I’m listening to “Birds.” It’s an apparent recommendation to the medication trade, however in the background there’s a chorus chanting “Move ’em out! relocation ’em out!” over as well as over, however they’re sped up so they sound

MF DOOM

like…Birds!

Any album with MF DOOM is one worth inspecting out, as well as his laid back, free-associative style fits completely with the rest of this album.  He always works well with Madlib.  Blu as well as MED do a fantastic job, too.  And inspect out a few of the other guests: Phonte (of bit Brother), British soul-rapper Aloe Blacc, Mayer Hawthorne…The listing goes on as well as on.  But this feels like a band, not a few men who just got together to make an album.

I’m not going to state that “Bad Neighbor” is brilliant, or the very best album ever, however damn is it a trip to listen to.