After the original Madvillainy release, Rolling Stone magazine tagged the Madvillain duo as “two of the funniest mouths in underground hip-hop.” The humor is still intact if not amplified by Madlib’s constant experimentation.
The songs are short and packed with obscure vocal samples, ’60s soul music and jazzy tunes. It was a risky move to just add sample mixes to an album that was considered a classic within the underground hip-hop community, but the payoff is a well-polished, well-mixed new masterwork of two talented “mad” men.
Grade: A
Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix is currently available.