Welcome to Week 1 of our Book (Album) Club! This weeks album is Madvillainy by Madvillain, the duo of MF DOOM (all caps) and Madlib. Please give the album a fresh listen and give us your thoughts, opinions and possibly hot takes.
Doesn’t matter if this is your 100th time listening to the album or your listen to the album the first time right before posting!
Upcoming Calendar
September 26th: LIVE.LOVE.A$AP by A$AP Rocky
October 3rd: Poverty’s Paradise by Naughty By Nature
October 10th: Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B
October 17th: R.A.P. Music by Killer Mike
Sorry I’m a few days late to this thread. I don’t really consider myself a hiphophead. I’m more hip hop-curious but this album is one of the best hip hop albums I’ve heard.
For me the stand out track is Meat Grinder. His rhyme schemes throughout that song are just insane to me. So many references probably go over my head yet it still gives me chills. I can understand why some call him your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.
Our board is so small right now, a few days late is still on the front page haha. He for sure has earned his reputation as a rapper’s rapper. One of my favorite things about Hip Hop in general is how the rhymes and double meanings really make it so you can get more out of a track/album each time you listen to it. MF DOOM is damn near as good as it gets when it comes to that kinda thing.
Hope to see you next week too! I’m trying to make sure each week’s album is something good, but also different from the week before so we can hear all sorts of Hip Hop.
Next week’s is new to me! Not sure if I’ll like it but I’ll give it a shot.
By the way we stole your album club idea over in lemmy.world/c/alternativenation. First week went okay. Hopefully both of our communities continue to grow and we get more discussion in the future.
That is sick! I’ll have to check out y’alls album for this week, I love to check out different sorts of music. If we can find an album that fits both of our communities we should try a crossover post one week haha
I never really sat down to listen to this album start to finish, only random songs before… but having done so now I truly get a sense of why other rappers have taken inspiration, cues or straight up referenced his style in their own productions.
Personally, when the lyrics cause the listener to reflect on themselves or the world around them it takes the song to another level. I don’t mean in a deep philosophical way but even if it makes you go “yea something about that clicks with me”, it’s like having a conversation with the music yknow?
And this album does that for me, real pleasurable experience.
I actually had a similar experience with this album. I first heard some of the tracks back in like…2010ish? Then finally listened to it all the way through in 2020 during COVID. I thought it was crazy how it managed to take tracks I like and, in the context of the whole album, make them even better.
I totally forgot this thread was happening today… I got nothing really to add at the moment that hasn’t already been said here, other than “Raid” needing a proper shout out in the thread. But I’ll jam on the album again in the morning and maybe make an edit.
It is funny tho, I was thinking about DOOM earlier this morning when this amazing track with Aesop Rock came on my playlist. These dudes are both my favorite wordsmiths in hip hop, and I was feeling really sad that they only ever got up on a few tracks together… Tell me it wouldn’t be the dopest shit if they had done a whole collab album together!? And, to keep it a little in theme with this thread, tell me a collab of Aesop and Madlib vs. DOOM and Blockhead wouldnt also be fucking dope!?
10/10 album for me. Production is flawless and DOOM’s writing is top tier. America’s Most Blunted, Curls, and All Caps are my favorites but every song on here is so good. This album will forever live on as one of the greatest.
One of my favorite Madlib beats is the Supervillain Theme so I will always rate this album highly. Between this and Jaylib he was on top of the producer game at the time.
Would you consider this and/or Jaylib Madlib’s best work? I only ask because I’ve always loved what he did on Pinata with Freddie Gibbs and personally have never been able to decide between Madvillainy or Pinata as my favorite thing by Madlib.
I am actually more fond of the production on In Search of Stoney Jackson or the original mix of Jaylib that I heard before the official release.
