Mark Ronson and Madlib have utilized samples to create big hits for Bruno Mars, Lizzo, MF Doom, and Freddie Gibbs, but their latest project draws from a more unlikely source of inspiration. The ...

More than 20 years after MF DOOM and Madlib dropped ‘Madvillainy,' we dug up some facts you might not know about the iconic ...

Asking some producers to reveal the records they sampled is tantamount to asking a magician to explain how a trick is performed. There are probably tons of hip-hop nerds around the world wondering ...

In the new special "Madlib’s Medicine Show," Noisey documented the moment the iconic producer met the iconic artist he's spent his career sampling and sourcing inspiration from. Madlib has been ...

When producers who make new music by sampling old music are especially prolific, their discographies can easily become overwhelming. Forget expensive studios and paying musicians: A large record ...

Sometimes infinitesimal changes to proven formulas still create innovative and remarkably unique works. The fourth song off of Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs’s and producer Madlib’s first full-length ...

Imagine being granted the ability, just for a day, to hear music the way Madlib does. Imagine listening to practically any record -- '60s psych-rock, '70s Latin funk, a Brazilian jazz joint that's ...

What do you do after you break a pinata open? You go through all of the stuff inside right? Well it’s the end of the year and it’s time for me to take Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s “Pinata” album and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “From the percussion of a forklift beeping to the tonal beat of a conveyor belt to the hi-hat of air blown into a plastic bottle, ...