Madlib Confirms Black Star Album is Done, Announces 'Bandana' Sequel with Freddie Gibbs

Source: Gilles Peterson's 'Worldwide FM'

The producer also discussed his jazz inspirations, personal grails, and bridging eras of music with hip-hop.

Madlib and manager/Now Again Records chief, Egon, were the latest guests on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM.

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Throughout their two-hour chat, the trio of legendary record collectors trade tales of impossible finds and spending time with the musicians that inspired them, while spinning selections from their respective catalogs. They also discuss the generational ties between hip-hop and jazz, praising Horace Silver and Roy Ayers for their widely unheralded contributions in the sampling era. And though the bulk of the episode is comprised cuts from jazz and hip-hop giants, the group drops pearls throughout, including what Madlib learned from the late Weldon Irvine, the young MCs he's currently working with, and how the Bandana producer intends to keep up the output over the next few years.

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Towards the end of their transmission, Lib announces a sequel to Bandana with Freddie Gibbs (tentatively titled, Montana,) a new collaborative project with Westside Gunn, and yes, the long-rumored Black Star album with Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, which Egon confirms is being mixed.

Hear Madlib and Egon chop it up with Gilles Peterson on the latest episode of Worldwide FM below. Scroll on for the show's full tracklist.

Tracklist:

ROY AYERS – GOTTA FIND A LOVER

THE JACK WILSON QUARTET FEAT. ROY AYERS – CORCOVADO

PAN AFRIKAN PEOPLE’S ARKESTRA – THE CALL

NATE MORGAN – IMPULSE

MTUME UMOJA ENSEMBLE – UTAMU

ONENESS OF JUJU – AFRICAN RHYTHMS (45 VERSION PARTS 1 AND 2)

FREDDIE HUBBARD – OPEN SESAME

WENDELL HARRISON AND THE TRIBE – FAREWELL TO THE WELFARE PART 1

REGGIE ANDREWS AND THE FELLOWSHIP – SONG FOR J

DONALD BYRD – ESTAVANICO

WILLIS JACKSON – NUTHER’N LIKE THUTHER’N

DUKE ELLINGTON – THE MOOCHE (LIVE @ THE OLYMPIA THEATRE PARIS)

AHMAD MILLER – ARROYO

DJ RELS – DIGGIN IN BROWNSWOOD

FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB – EDUCATION (FEAT. YASIIN BEY & BLACK THOUGHT)

YESTERDAY’S NEW QUINTET – DEJA VU

WELDON IRVINE – BLAST OFF

WELDON IRVINE – TURKISH BATH

YESTERDAY’S NEW QUINTET – SUITE FOR WELDON

MADLIB – SONG FOR MY FATHER

HORACE SILVER – ACID, POT OR PILLS

FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB – ROBES FEAT DOMO GENESIS & EARL SWEATSHIRT

YESTERDAYS NEW QUINTET – PALLADIUM

MARVIN GAYE – WHERE ARE WE GOING

IDRIS ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS – SUNSET

SUN RA – IMAGES (IN A MIRROR)

RAS G – CULTURE RIDDIM

SUN RA – ISLAND IN THE SUN