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It's a beautiful, impossible dream, but for 54 mellow, blunted minutes, King Of The Wigflip makes it a glorious reality.
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The beats are excellent as well, loping and stuttering and falling over each other in Madlib's best Drunken Master style. Although there are plenty of instrumentals, at least three-quarters of WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip is given over to vocal features.
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Q MagazineThis mixtape-style collection is more ramshackle than his most celebrated work, but it's still packed wirh inspired funk. [Dec 2008, p.127]
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The WireFor every track that delivers the expected, another does something quite extraordinary. [Oct 2008, p.72]
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WLIB AM has a better hit-to-miss ratio than just about any radio station you can name anyways.
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It’s a rare thing to find so many talented collaborators (notably Guilty Simpson, Oh No, & Murs) on top of the skills of such a creative and accomplished selector as Madlib. WLIB AM puts an odd twist on oldschool and dresses to impress.
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Under The RadarWigflip is another document of Madlib weaving his near-impermeable armor of credibility despite some chinks. [Year End, p. 88]
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Too bad inconsistent vocal performances from Prince Po to MED, tempt you to switch the dial on this hour-long jam. [Nov 2008, p.96]
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MojoWLIB AM is best taken as a whole. [Nov 2008, p.116]
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UncutThere's a sense that he's doing little more than cobbling together offcuts from his recent stream of projects. [Dec 2008, p.105]
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As often as it seems like Madlib might be a genius, there are records like this that prove true the old adage of “quality versus quantity.”
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Wigflip feels like the type of thing Madlib could churn out on any given lazy Sunday afternoon.
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The sick is far outweighed by the sloppy as the selection shifts from slo-mo chronic puffers to wobbly boozer bumps bracketed by two thugged-out rips by Guilty Simpson.