A RARE ENCOUNTER WITH MADLIB

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http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/18062/1/a-rare-encounter-with-madlib


DD: So, what’s your favourite conspiracy theory of all time?

Madlib: That’s the biggest secret. I know certain things I can’t talk about. I know a lot of things that I’ll get in trouble talking about.
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DD: You have worked with a lot of MCs who have a gangsta edge. Do you ever give credence to that old cliché that violent lyrics can have deadly repercussions in culture?

Madlib: I don’t think so; it depends on your mind. If you’re that stupid or it can control you like that then probably, but I don't think like that and people around me don’t think like that. Well, I hope not! I look at it as a movie. I don’t look at it like, 'yo, he’s really gonna go shoot somebody.’ I don’t think the people that rap like that are living like that. It’s just painting images you know. I don’t ever see any of that going down. You got to treat it like you’re watching the Godfather. If it was really true they probably wouldn’t be making records they would probably be out there doing that.
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DD: You’ve been making records for 20 years. Do you ever get bored of people asking you to play things that you made when you were a kid?

Madlib: Yeah, you said it for me. I move on. I can’t even listen to stuff I did last year. I’m already somewhere else. Usually when you hear albums they come out like two or three years after I made them. I’m always doing something different. I’m musically schizophrenic; I get bored quick, so I’m always moving on to something else. A lot of the stuff I do is never going to come out but I do it for myself. It’s challenging for me.
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DD: Sorry to go a bit dark, but when you die what’s going to happen to all of your unreleased music?

Madlib: I'm gonna burn it down before I die, a little Lee Perry action. Ain’t nobody exploiting my shyt. If I was dying in hospital I’d tell my son to go and burn it. Don’t think I’m going to get exploited like they’re doing to Dilla. I’m learning from how he’s being treated from some people.
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