If there's one thing you can say for sure about the eccentric rapper and producer Madlib, it's that the man is prolific. Madlib has crafted beats and rhymes under more names than any other rapper on the scene today, and only the most obsessive underground heads could possibly list them all. However, following Madlib's scattered career is well worth the effort; one week the man will be re-mixing jazz classics, the next he'll be throwing down strange rhymes behind a superhero mask. Madlib has gone on record saying that his nom de rock stands for Mind Altering Demented Lessons In Beats, which is exactly the science that this crazy professor throws down. Some of Madlib's most successful and high profile collaborations have been with unique artists like De La Soul, MF DOOM, Talib Kweli and The Alkoholiks. But before there was Madlib, there was Otis Jackson, Jr. Born in the navy town of Oxnard, California. Music seems like it was always in young Otis' future and Madlib got involved with the hip hop crew Lootpack at a young age. His supportive and enterprising father founded the independent Crate Diggas Palace Records to promote the group. The plan worked, and the young rappers soon came to the attention of the celebrated underground MC Peanut Butter Wolf. After spending some time in the studio with The Alkoholiks, Madlib released his first solo disc, The Unseen, under the name Quasimoto in 2000. The album sounded like little else going on in hip hop at the time, and it earned the MC huge positive press. The Unseen also served as a showcase for Madlib's studio production skills, and his freaky, high-pitched vocal style on that album is a direct result of studio trickery. In 2001, Madlib broke new ground again by releasing the first of his Yesterdays New Quintet records, which focus on taking hip hop into a laid-back, jazzy world full of retro electronics and vintage samples. Madlib has gone on to release several New Quintet albums, and was also allowed unprecedented full access to the legendary label Blue Note's jazz vaults for a 2003 remix album. But Madlib can still keep it strange too, and his Madvilain collaborations with MF DOOM are some of the sickest stuff out there.
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