Gibbs, Freddie & Madlib - Pinata: The 1964 Version (Limited Skyblue & Black Coloured Vinyl) (Vinyl LP)

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata: The 1964 Version (Limited Skyblue & Black Coloured Vinyl)

After the original release Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's Piñata in 2014, cover artist Jeff Jank made a new sleeve for the album in the style of a 1964 Blue Note album.

Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane.

Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he brings the block to the booth without inhibition or an exaggerated rap persona. Piñata, a 17 track collaboration with producer Madlib, is the best distillation yet of his transparent approach to making music, combining an at times stark honesty with electrifying talent as a lyricist and performer.

Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax, says Gibbs, who came up on the streets of Gary, Indiana, the disregarded city previously best known for producing Michael Jackson. Here he is joined by Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul and a host of others in setting his soliloquies of the streets alongside film snippets and dusted funk, soul and prog musical tapestries. While this is the latest in a series of single-artist collaborations for Madlib, after Jaylib (J Dilla), Madvillainy (MF Doom) and the street-centric O.J. Simpson with Detroits Guilty Simpson, the pairing is unique as it is the first time for Gibbs working with just one producer.

Tracklisting:

1. Supplier
2. Scarface
3. Deeper
4. High (Featuring Danny Brown)
5. Harold’s
6. Bomb (Featuring Raekwon)
7. Shitsville
8. Thuggin’
9. Real
10. Uno
11. B Side
12. Robes (Featuring Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt)
13. Broken (Featuring Scarface)
14. Lakers (Featuring Ab-Soul & Polyester the Saint)
15. Knicks
16. Shame (Featuring BJ The Chicago Kid)
17. Watts (Featuring Big Time Watts)
18. Piñata (Featuring Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller