Name: Pinata Beats
Brand: Madlib

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MMS024LP

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

989327002419

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Madlib

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Madlib Invazion

There are few musicians - let alone beat-makers - in the world whose output in its raw form provides his listener with a full on musical experience before anything is added. Madlib is such a talent. Hip-hop is his canvas, but he creates the most wondrous things with it. Before a microphone is switched on, before a rhyme even uttered, a Madlib beat stands alone as a complete thing. 

Since the issue of the collaborative album with rapper Freddie Gibbs - Pinata, already being hailed as contender for rap album of the year - the label have been asked countless times to issue the beats Madlib created for the project as instrumentals. And they've conceded. Pinata put Gibbs in the spotlight, one that a growing audience is finally acknowledging that he deserves.

On Pinata Beats, though, it's Madlib, quietly spinning on the centre stage. Through seventeen cuts of arcane film snippets, dusted funk and soul, psych and prog rock musical diversions, Madlib proves to live up to what Gibbs once said of him: "Madlib quite simply, is music."

Pinata Beats

Music GB