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Madlib x Rolling Stone Interview
Madlib chops it up with Rolling Stone Magazine as they do a lil’ catching up with what he’s been up to and what he has planned for the future.
What’s Quasimoto been up to in the eight years since his last album?He’s been laying back, laying low [laughs].
Has he just been eating mushrooms all that time?Of course.
Are you still planning to release another Quasimoto album of all new material?Yes, but I still haven’t finished. It takes time. It has to be on a different level. The shrooms were the stuff that made me do Quasimoto in the first place. Hopefully, I get back on that level where I can finish it.
Will the Madvillain sequel ever see the light of day?I handed all the beats to Doom years ago, but ever since he’s been in Europe, he’s been hard to get a hold of. I feel it probably won’t happen, but you never know. I can’t sit and wait on that. I did my part.
You recently started your own label, Madlib Invazion. Do you see that as mainly a place to release your music, or will you be releasing music from other artists as well?Both. I’m going to release records from Kan Kick. A couple of singing artists. That’s all I’ve found so far. I want to work with Stones Throw and also do my own thing. Stones Throw already has a lot of artists, so it makes sense to be able to release my other stuff on the side.
How is MadGibbs coming?It’s done. It sounds good. Gibbs killed his parts. So did Earl Sweatshirt and Danny Brown on the guest verses.
What was it about Freddie Gibbs that made you want to work with him?It’s hard to really explain in words. I look at him as a new version of 2Pac. He does musically a lot of the stuff that I try to do as a producer. He’s capable of doing everything, but he’s interested in being original and not sounding like all the other stuff on the radio.
Were you a fan of 2Pac?I’m generally not into the really popular dudes like that, but he was good. I actually liked a lot of his older stuff – his first few albums were the best. That’s usually the case with a lot of artists. I also started working on my own music and kind of lost track of his music.
Check out more over at Rolling Stone
*Side Note* Madlib has upcoming projects with Mos Def, Freddie Gibbs, and Madvillian.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/2e6b0f2d11e1bb606ca74c6ba007c600/tumblr_mom3jvxDVF1qc4k6lo1_500.jpg)
