Madlib

Liberation 2 (Instrumentals)

Talib Kweli

Liberation 2 (Explicit)

Richies Part Two (Explicit)

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Freddie Gibbs

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Rock Konducta, Pt. 2

Piñata Beats

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Black Tape (Explicit)

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Guilty Simpson

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Liberation

《Liberation 2》是地下说唱黄金组合Talib Kweli与王牌制作人Madlib的再度联袂之作，延续了二人标志性的思想深度与先锋律动美学。整张专辑浸透着90年代东岸说唱的粗粝质感，通过Madlib大量爵士乐与灵魂乐切片搭建出流动的听觉空间，Talib的歌词则在种族议题与个体解放之间展开锋利辩证——既有对系统不公的控诉，亦闪烁着社群自省的温度。像《Wild Sweet Love》中急促的鼓点与萨风采样形成戏剧对冲，《After These Messages》用低音线描摹出都市困顿中的觉醒意识。整张专辑在激进与沉思之间保持张力，堪称用黑胶质感包裹的当代宣言录。

Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he brings the block to the booth without inhibition or an exaggerated rap persona. Piñata, a 17 track collaboration with producer Madlib, is the best distillation yet of his transparent approach to making music, combining an at times stark honesty with electrifying talent as a lyricist and performer. Piñata is "a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax," says Gibbs, who came up on the streets of Gary, Indiana, the disregarded city previously best known for producing Michael Jackson. Here he is joined by Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul and a host of others in setting his soliloquies of the streets alongside film snippets and dusted funk, soul and prog musical tapestries. While this is the latest in a series of single-artist collaborations for Madlib, after Jaylib (J Dilla), Madvillainy (MF Doom) and the street-centric O.J. Simpson with Detroits Guilty Simpson, the pairing is unique as it is the first time for Gibbs working with just one producer. On Piñata, where Gibbs can shift from textbook lessons in robbing and drugging on trackslike "Scarface" and "Knicks," to perhaps the albums most personal song, "Broken," a collaboration with Scarface, who, along with Tupac, DMX and 50 Cent, make up the rappers own Mount Rushmore of MCs ("You re getting a hurricane of all those motherf&%kers hitting you at once when you listen to Freddie Gibbs," he says). "Deeper," a Gibbs favorite and the third single from the album after "Thuggin" (2012) and "Shame," (2013) is an ode to hip-hop in the mold of Commons "I Used to Love H.E.R."; "High," featuring Danny Brown, is self-explanatory and just what you would expect from Gibbs, Madlib and one of Detroits finest; while on "Real," Gibbs addresses an old score just as Michael Corleone settled all family business on baptism day. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music, and ten years into his career a time when other artists become comfortable Gibbs remains restless, focused, with an eye on the competition and their position relative to his ascent. This is because mentally, he s still on the corner hustling, which would be the downfall of the average rapper. With Piñata, Gibbs confirms that he is anything but average.

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