Q&As: Madlib and Freddie Gibbs Talk ‘Piñata,’ Shrooms, Prog Rock, and Rich White Friends

At one point there was talk of you working with Kanye?

I don’t know what happened. Maybe he didn’t wanna pay my fee, or maybe he didn’t wanna go in that direction. Probably the money thing, he wanted to put his name on my— I actually don’t wanna talk about that. A lot of people record over my music and it don’t come out.

You don’t seem too concerned about it.

I just be hiding. If people get in touch and they like-minded, they probably gonna work out. I don’t worry about collaborating. Whatever happens, happens. No master plan. Shit, whatever happens, happens.

And so it just happened with Gibbs?

Oh yeah. He’s a cool dude and he trying to challenge himself. He’s doing more of commercial sounds but he knows how to fit on my beats. Most cats can’t fit on my beat. He can take a crazy-ass beat and kill it. From the first song, I knew it was gonna work out.

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