All of which is to say this: At this point, there’s not really a nook or cranny of the foreseeable music universe that we shouldn’t expect him to wanna swim around in. And so when it comes to the Gibbs pairing, it’s simple enough. As Madlib puts it, “Most cats can’t fit on my beats. He can take a crazy-ass beat and kill it.”
In two separate phone conversations last week, Grantland spoke with Madlib about his process and his listening habits, and with Gibbs about how “you can’t name five mothafuckas that rap better than” him “on the planet.”