What appears to be two new Madvillain tracks have surfaced online, and now us and everyone else is losing their shit. No word if this really is the first taste of a new project from MF Doom and Madlib, but here’s to hoping it is. Listen to both tracks on the links below.
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Madlib – ‘African Earwax’
The Beat Konducta Madlib has unleashed a new edition of the Mind Fusion series, named African Earwax. A tiny run of 30 physical copies were manufactured and snapped-up at a recent Rappcats pop-up shop in L.A., complete with hand-drawn designs from MF Doom cover artist Jason Jegel, but you can stream the whole thing in its digital form below. Dope as always.
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Czarface – ‘Ka-Bang’ feat. MF DOOM
According to Czarface, Every Hero Needs a Villain, and they don’t come much more villainous than MF DOOM. His feature on Ka-Bang is everything we’d hoped for, and yet more proof of how amazing the new album from 7L, Esoteric and Inspectah Deck is. Check it out below.
Bishop Nehru – ‘Harmony in a Glass’/’Breath’
The kid Bishop Nehru still has a bit to learn (like about how not to take up two minutes of every song simply repeating his hook over and over), but he’s been steady growing in style, and earned props for dropping a project last year with MF Doom. He also knows how to pick nice beats, and you can listen to two new tracks from him below, taken from the upcoming Nehruvia: The Nehruvian EP.
Czarface – ‘Every Hero Needs A Villain’ trailer
Czarface (7L & Esoteric, Inspectah Deck) are close to dropping new album Every Hero Needs A Villain, and have teased us with the trailer below. Boasting a feature list that includes MF Doom, Juju, Large Professor, and fellow Wu-Tang Clan legends Method Man and GZA, this is shaping up to be great.
Mos Def covers MF Doom classics
We may have been duped by that MF Doom/Flying Lotus April Fool’s gag, but this selection of video clips with Mos Def covering classic joints is definitely real. Watch the whole thing below, and join us in dreaming about how amazing it would be if BEYONDOOM ever became a full-on project.
MF Doom announces ‘Mask of the North Star’ with Flying Lotus
UPDATE: So it looks like the whole thing was a hilarious April Fool’s joke. Thanks for playing with our hearts, fuckers. Part of us STILL thinks it might be real though. Stranger things have happened.
Its no secret that we wet our pants anytime there’s new music from MF DOOM, and so its safe to say the news about an upcoming album with Flying Lotus has us very excited. The collaborative Mask of the North Star album will drop May 5 on Lex Recordings, with a host of guest appearances. Incredibly, the list includes El-P, and Quasimoto, which is surely a good sign for that long-awaited new Madvillain project. The coming together of Fly Lo and DOOM also explains why they are set to share the stage together in London on May 5, a show which we are happy to say we’ll be at. In the meantime, he’s the only bit of music from the new album we’ve had so far; Masquatch.
Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD – ‘Sour Soul’ (stream)
You can now listen to a full stream of Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD album Sour Soul, just ahead of its official release. The set features plenty of classic Ghost lines, plus guest spots from MF Doom, Danny Brown and more. Speaking of DOOM, now that this album is out, hopefully they can get moving on that long, long awaited GhostDOOM/DOOMStarks/whatever else they end up calling it album.
Ghostface Killah and Badbadnotgood – ‘Street Knowledge’
Sour Soul from Ghostface Killah and Badbadnotgood is out very soon, and the supreme team has released a new track to tease us. Street Knowledge is a change of pace from Ray Gun with MF Doom, but still has Ghost dropping classic lines.
http://www.audiomack.com/embed4-large/dj-arabmixtapes/street-knowledge
J-PRIMZ – ‘Lemon Juice’ (produced by MF Doom)
We don’t know much about J-PRIMZ, but this first effort from them is a decent intro. Of course, it helps somewhat that the beat happens to be from MF Doom. Listen to Lemon Juice below and let us know thoughts.