MADLIB - Shades Of Blue (2023 Repress) THE TRINIKAS ” also from Wide Awake

” also from Wide Awake

“The Sharecropper’s Daughter speaks to my father’s actual beginnings on a Virginia tobacco farm where his family sharecropped

but Noel Gallagher followed the example of his heroes the Jam and the Smiths

loss and everything in between with razor-sharp but open-hearted storytelling

D’s lyrics details a narrative on his upbringing in East Atlanta

MADLIB - Shades Of Blue (2023 Repress) THE TRINIKAS ” also from Wide Awake2LP 180g Black Vinyl housed in a Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve. The sound of Blue Note had been embedded in hip hop through sampling and remixes since its early days but Madlib raised the bar when the DJ, producer, rapper and multi instrumentalist invaded the Blue Note vaults for his 2003 masterpiece Shades of Blue, a visionary album featuring remixes and reimaginations of classics by Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Ronnie Foster, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne