Check out the video for album standout “Giannis” here. Meanwhile, outside of his work with Gibbs, Madlib shot down rumors of a joint album with the late Mac Miller. A little less predictable was that it took them to a new commercial level - number 39 on the Billboard 200, easily the highest position claimed by a Madlib Invazion release - and brought about a major-label deal through RCA. In December, they made a highly-anticipated stop at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts to run through a set with a famed, New York-based funk band and in October, they assembled their previously released music videos into a trailer for a phony film recounting the overarching narrative of Bandana. + Piata unsurprisingly reaffirmed that Freddie Gibbs and Madlib were a formidable duo. Madlib didn’t share too many other details, but the LP is $22.įreddie and Madlib spent most of 2019 promoting the album, which was their first as a group in five years. Where the original version of the album featured a cover depicting Madlib’s smoking mascot astride a zebra overlooking a devastated Los Angeles landscape from behind a destroyed Hollywood sign, the Bandana Beats cover shows “the moment the bomb detonates” as illustrated by cover artist Jeff Jank.
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