synffOtis Jackson Jr., better known as Madlib, stands as hip-hop's ultimate Loop Digga, a crate-digging savant whose sample-heavy beats conjure cosmic jazz-funk haze from four tons of vinyl.
Born in 1973 and raised scratching his father's records with pen tips in gang-ridden Oxnard, he channels…
125 roots·83 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Madlib; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Dilla, Sun Ra, Madvillain, Yesterday's New Quintet + 121 more
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