Madlib

USA, 1993–now

American producer (b. 1973, Otis Jackson Jr.) from Oxnard, California. He digs through jazz, Brazilian and library records and reassembles them dusty and off-centre, works under a shelf of aliases including the sped-up Quasimoto, and made Madvillainy with MF DOOM and Shades of Blue out of the Blue Note vaults.

MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Madlib and 0 artists Madlib influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Who influenced Madlib?

• Miles Davis — Madlib names Miles Davis among the musicians he grew up making beats to, and the electric-period records are the ones his jazz digging keeps returning to.
• Sun Ra — Sun Ra is among the names Madlib gives for his own listening, and the model for a musician who works under invented identities.