Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana (Discussion Thread)

[606onit]

Why am I just finding out that "Crime Pays" has a music video?
Dope track....

 

[Black Ball]

Gibbs is in the studio with Just Blaze today. Also has some music with Pete Rock coming out. Plus more Madlib (obviously) and Alc.

From the Ebro interview.

Fred.

How can I hear this interview? You gotta have an apple subscription?

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Not neccesarily Bandana related but apparently Madlib and Meyhem Lauren have an album dropping in the near future.

 

[Awesome Wells]

This is probably AOTY for me.

I was still rocking with Piñata heavy when they announced this album was on the way, so I was hype. Both are dope, so I can't say which one I like better yet. But I dig the soulful vibe of Bandana, and the chemistry on this album is slightly tighter. Gibbs said they sat in the studio for mixes and ideas on it, so you can tell it wasn't just about emailing tracks back and forth. And Madlib said he made all of these tracks on a damn iPad. Dude is genius on the beats! Mad underrated.

 

[hex]

How can I hear this interview? You gotta have an apple subscription?

Apparently, yeah.

Which I don't have....but a snippet of the interview was up on Facebook and he mentioned he's working with those producers.

Fred.

 

[Guvnor]

extra intro before obrigado, just gibbs talkin shyt

sample from bfk's breaking bad at the end of half manne half cocaine

flat tummy tea has the extended intro from the 12"

different outros on fake names, situations, and soul right, first two are way better imo

Thanks a lot man, I'll have to compare and contrast the two to see which I prefer.

 

[RAW_SPK]

“Education” video dropped

Edit: It’s not official but still

 

[JoelB]

 

[BK The Great]

Political Gibbs

 

[Lhark]

Been playing this all week, this topped IGOR as my AOTY

My top 5:
Situations
Practice
Half Man, Half Cocaine
Fake Names
Palmolive

 

[Maude]

Most of the features on Pinata were recorded separately and emailed in. It's pretty obvious too if you listen knowing that. Most if not all of the features are the final verse of the song (like they just tacked them on the end), and on some of them the mix sounds different than Gibbs' part.

I'd add Earl's verse on Robes to your list, but other than that I agree that most of the features could've been left off.

Domo and Earl's verse are good.
Ab's souls verse is

 

[Maude]

Does madlib put skits on these beats after the fact or do the artist hear these skits before recording their verse to the track?


How does that differ from the regular version exactly?

Doom said in a interview about madvillain that he wrote around the beats so its probably already there.I think the song he was talkin about was americas most blunted. Maybe it depends on the beat.

 

[Guvnor]

Fake Names, now that's how you do a song with two beats on one track.


A lot of artist try that shyt and some times I'm like why can't they just make the second one into a longer song or this didn't need to be one the same track. For instance on Drake's Furthest Thing song, I always thought the second beat should have been it's own track and he should have put another verse on that beat. He wasted that beat!

Pinata is a great album but the features are awful (except scarface, Rae and bj)

I disagree, I thought they were perfect.

I mean you got Earl, Meechy Darco, Ab-Soul with Polyster The Saint on LA and I could go on and on. All of them are spitting on that shyt and contribute fire.

Danny Brown also delivered a dope verse, sure his delivery is hella animated and some people don't like the high-pitch voiced he raps in but I think it goes well with that track about being high. It fit that track perfectly imo.

 

[OneTimeforTheMind]

This alnum the shyt fukk u haters

 

[classicmaterial]

Domo and Earl's verse are good.
Ab's souls verse is

Yeah I chopped Ab-Soul off the album. Also cut Danny Brown and Mac Miller