What EVERY PRODUCER can learn from Madlib

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[@mikoshbeats]

The fact that he made No more parties in LA on his iPad says enough

[@Pharcyde139]

I wouldn't believe everything he says about what was made on an iPad. He states he uses an iPad mini (came out in 2012, beat was made in 2010) maybe he upgraded later down the line, but not many DAW apps were about then. Not saying he didn't make it on the iPad for this particular one, but something to think about. He also states Bandana was created on an iPad. The beat for massage seats was used for a BLU song in 2012 called "Funky Cowboy Meets The Funky Drummer" The middle of Fake Names was originally a beat Track 25 on Raw Cake 4, which came out in 2007. There are a lot more examples of this, which you can dig and see for yourself. Madlib is still one of, if not my favourite, producer. This is not shade at him, but unless he is a time traveller - not all the beats he claims were made on an iPad were actually made on one

[@KAMOYA17]

@@Pharcyde139 talk about auditing and investigative skills 😄

[@b1slee267]

@@Pharcyde139he def recycled beats. Smh Idk why not just say he using older beats. I guess to not look lazy maybe? Idk but he’s still a master at his craft

[@NavieD]

Hmm interesting sleuthing my friend 🧐

[@Pharcyde139]

​@@b1slee267oh for sure. I think he likes messing with people tbh, having the majority of people think it was all done on the iPad when it really wasn't, he might get a kick outta that. Either way, he's a beast. I've made beats on an iPad, personally can't imagine choosing that over an MPC. They're good for sketching ideas here and there. I know big productions can be done on them, but it's a lot more janky than using equipment and a computer

[@invaderp3155]

I started listening to DOOM when I was 15 then I found Madlib soon after and I’ve never heard better beats than madlibs and never heard better rhymes than DOOM’s

[@martinjameskeys]

GRISELDA!!!!

[@Cyktar]

Madlib is not betta rapper then Doom

[@BarryH90dz]

The loop digga, he keeps it simple.

[@reliction]

I have been a silent viewer for close to two years now, and it makes me happy how far you've come. You're one of the best teachers I have seen and have a very high production quality, every subscriber is deserved

[@mdptg1990]

Over the last 25 years, Madlibs music is so incredibly diverse. The Quasimoto beats are totally different to the Freddie Gibbs stuff, which is then totally different to the Jaylib & Madvillainy and shades of blue beats. But you’ll find similar trends across most of these albums which relates to where he sources his samples - bollywood & Brazilian soul for example

[@acidstormtroop]

Dont forget the madlib medicine show series where he specifically samples one genre or country for the whole beattape or history of the loop digga series🎉😊

[@smackdammit4266]

Your ability to break down and hunt down the samples is second to none

[@moorbilt]

6:12 Survival Test _made me cry!_

[@jboogzbeats]

dawg the first beat u made with the what a day sample is so crazy 🔥

[@NavieD]

Thank you Boogz!

[@sleeper6000]

Madlib for me has always been the distillation of simplicity over complexity, when it comes to beats. Simplicity meaning not adding unnecessary complexity to samples but instead musically looping and reshaping them. Idk if that makes sense totally, but definitely feels like he's collabing with the original artist to createsomething raw, new or flipping it entirely. When I first heard Raid on Adult Swim watching The Boondocks back in 2000 whenever, it kicked off something for me sound wise, there's just something about the way he makes a beat that calls back to that feeling of watching Swim bumps in your living room late at night or riding the bus in LA.

[@fentanyljones6956]

Your example @2:20 or so is DOPE Navie D, quit playin!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@CaldoHits]

I'm absolutely hype for this video. Madlib, Dilla and The Alchemist are my biggest inspiration. I've been studying his Medicine Show Series as I would like to mix beats like that. His top 5 easily.

[@SoulFritoBeats]

Madlib is one of the greats

[@NavieD]

I agree

[@SoulFritoBeats]

You dope too I love watching your videos .

[@victorcobane6644]

The part about having the same resources and samples MADLIB has is really inspiring. One of my favorite things about the modern era is how low the walls to creation have become. Yes, it's lead to a lot of uninspired stuff by people just trying to make a buck, but the fact that every potential producer is empowered through the sheer amount of resources we have access to now and can potentially reach the same level as the Madlibs or Dillas through refining their craft and just working at it, without worrying about being priced out or running out of samples is truly beautiful and inspiring to me.

[@MVRBFree]

My favorite beat on Piñata and one of my favorite all time from Madlib is “Real”.

[@Prod.Xerxes]

Navie can we get the RZA vid 🙏🏾 love your content

[@LLusion]

loved this video

[@JustProSL]

hi

[@dja.selekta]

Thank you! My 3 Best producers of all time. Madlib The Alchemist J Dilla In that order. I'm a Dilla student before you come for me. BombSquad were the Blueprint though

[@ahpadt]

lol. all alchemist beats sound the same.

[@jahknowone9407]

what knxwledge did to this beat should be in a museum

[@Mr.Cactoos.]

Same sample was use by Royce in Boblo Boat , also great way to flip it.

[@NavieD]

🙏

[@musamusashi]

One of the most creative and one of my top favorite producers.

[@MvnStn]

This is refreshing! I do a lot of these very same things, albeit to a lesser extant in terms of success and talent, but this is a nice confidence booster. lol Thanks, Navie!

[@NavieD]

You're welcome boss!

[@alejandrogalindo1154]

the beat switch in fake names is legendary

[@SinisterMikeMain15]

exactly, i love when a beat has that raw sound like static etc. even when u hear the original samples drums kind of off beat with your drums sometimes add that rawness to it, i just got fl studio back again after about 10 years and im learning how to sample again. so far made a couple boom bap lofi type beats that just speak to the soul man i love it so much. a long time passion of mine is making beats

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

What a Day flew under my radar, ty VERY much for making it appear in this video, it's beautiful. Making raw music really is such a cheat code btw., love how anything goes if you just do it well.

[@Cyktar]

Yo bro this is 9 months later BUT you might wanna check out mind touch by Madlib its kinda the same type of beat (also check rawcakes vol 1)

[@djsunnysideup23]

love this! I need to study more producers like Madlib. Thanks again Navie! p.s. I see you got that new version of Serato Sample! That stem separation feature is such a game changer

[@Abundanc3beats]

Sooooo many gems in this video fam! Thank you for the knowledge 🔥🫡

[@NavieD]

Thank you for watching my friend!

[@markbruggeman274]

"Cunninlynguists - The Park" was made with FL Studio to!

[@randomguy0047]

We need a full version of the first beat

[@rbrimk3874]

madlib def my fav producer

[@Efeamuge]

Thank you once again, Navie

[@wellfedstarvingartist]

Also, Brazilian music is pretty influenced by Jazz and soul :p

[@harrywatson6184]

This one is an instant classic 🔥🔥

[@RWQMUZK]

To piggyback on your labels comment: labels back in the day were also considered to be “houses” where a lot of the same musicians, gear, studios, tracking, mixing and mastering engineers were used for multiple recordings and gave the label an entire sonic character. WB vs Columbia vs Motown vs CTI., the List goes on, all had their own sound… check it out! 🤘🏾

[@sethevatt9822]

mentally made this swap a few years ago now, sorta coming to the same conclusion. looking back now its the best music i've worked on to date and resulted in 5 fully produced albums! create now and reflect on it later. madlib is the greatest, the true definition of a creative. thanks for sharing this perspective i hope it helps others.

[@austincaruso7596]

That first beat you made was gas tho💥💥

[@Cyktar]

Its a real beat he made look it up bro!! (What a day)

[@ERICPROD-dx4rv]

Hey bro literally sayin your videos helped me a lot, You are one of the finnest "GURU" in whole youtube community ! KEEP ROCKING !

[@spliffsoldier]

WHAT A DAY, ANOTHER TUESDAY, ANOTHER NAVIE VIDEO.

[@NavieD]

Right on time 😎

[@lowermainlandlearningchann7664]

Good video man. Since I’ve seen your stuff I have been appreciating my work more.

[@francescomoretti4986]

Madlib is the GOAT, period.

[@abbadonproductioninc]

Amazing stuff Navie!! You're always dropping gems. 🙌🏾 I love your content. Keep pumping these out man. Incredibly detailed descriptions. I do think you left out the part about how Madlib clears those samples, presuming that he clears them at all or is just that much of a 🐐😂

[@Durian404]

Thats why i love my SP

[@benchemikal]

Love your videos man. I always thought some of madlib beats have the most unique sort of walking feel to the kicks.. I've heard similar vibes with flying lotus and dilla but nothing quite like the man himself

[@OS96]

thanks for the video. madlib is a wizard and sampling is such a beautiful art form. it's just important to give credit where credit belongs imo. (and eventually royalties 🐸👍) also OMG through this video i just found out about serato 2.0, so i just updated and now excuse me i have to make a beat real quick 😋

[@BausikFilmCo]

Personally think you make the best content for the beat maker community. Keep it up!

[@brodytrumpet]

Your tutorials are Phat! Thanks again from Berlin!

[@prod.obliviated]

Video is so good I watched it twice already today, I’ll probably be coming back to this again and again and again. Thank you!!!

[@manatee_flips6811]

Hip hop is beat based music, that’s all you need....anything else is the chefs choice.

[@HoodPsychoP3dia]

Ask BIG rip you right

[@MrLiljon63]

Recently got one of your videos in my recommendations and immediately subscribed. Love your work, super inspiring and entertaining

[@lion_haebler2831]

2:13 - that beat of yours is really dope

[@MasaTheSlayer]

Yes, fully agree and have been doing beats like this. Lately I have sampled some Japanese and Estonian stuff. Just find a cool loop and get into it.

[@slimgunkodaspunko4747]

6:56 I know this man’s nickname is just StewKey but I can’t stop thinking about it as stookey, like he’s from Jersey Shore.

[@DSWL_]

yall making beats from the late 90s to early 2ks good luck with that boom bap 😆

[@bjhbjhbjhweeee]

Not just hiphop. The pure sampling music.

[@PedroHenrique-ox9zx]

I really like Madlib using brazillians samples, the time he came to Brazil he bought enough vinyls to make 5000 beats

[@J2rokDinoHuntuh]

Speaking on using the same song to sample for multiple beats-RZA used The Charmel's "As Long As I Got You" for "C.R.E.A.M.", "7th Chamber", & GZA's "I Gotcha Back". I have a few tracks where I do. There's one right now that I've released 2 songs out of it and about to do another😂Nice video

[@indelaxiom]

I love all the great info you drop in your videos and I fully appreciate it. Thank you!

[@lelandchapman1]

Love this channel. ❤

[@Aluarth]

Very informative video, high quality and some great tips! Awesome to see you've got 200k+ subs now bro!

[@ryn0009]

Thank you for this. Seriously.

[@julesbarents1197]

Nice video, you are a chill guy

[@yesyor]

I love Madlibs music. Hope there cames a Quasimoto album one day

[@1800cxllect]

Thanks for the upload

[@scubadawg1555]

killer video bro, I'm subscribing!

[@ProdZeezy]

Love your videos man you really know your stuff !

[@abandonedbuildingexplorer]

I am reminded of one of my favourite alternative rock rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist who was not formally trained and goes by instinct and makes some crazy shit, and his band mate is a classically trained musician, and presumably they come together and the instinctual rawness maybe gets polished with some formal grace, but the thing is, it sometimes takes an individual with more recklessness to come up with some unique and powerful chord progressions and melodies. Feel what I'm sayin'?

[@abandonedbuildingexplorer]

Be free as a bird and if it's meant to be, it will be.

[@OnTheWireCreativeMedia]

I was the first producer to use that sample.. I used it on Darksunriders.. They call me Ultraman...

[@RaymondG_916]

Thank you for this

[@pairadeau]

Excellent work here.

[@DiegoRodriguez-mj1gb]

thanks for your videos

[@ReeseMoe73]

That beat was used by Royce 5'9 for Boblo Boat before Tyler gotta hold of it.

[@Cyktar]

No its just the same sample Madlib made this in 2003 on another hundred 150-200 its track 154

[@ReeseMoe73]

@Cyktar I'm completely aware of that. I never said it was the 1st time used. I specifically stated it was used in Boblo boat before Tyler

[@mac3682]

Hip hop legends sampling Urbaniak 🇵🇱

[@NavieD]

Are you Urbaniak?

[@mac3682]

@@NavieD no 😅 Urbaniak is Polish jazzman, who was playing im NY. Legend, fantastic musician. Quincey Jones was playing with him . I know his music was sampled also by Q-Tip on midnight marauders.

[@deanivan3951]

The funny thing is, in the 80's and 90's any genre was sampled, it was standard . It wasn't until the wider mainstream caught on to it that it was put in categories like hiphop jazz. Any ill loop with a dope beat is hiphop full stop.

[@flareyboi9064]

please do a video on the RZA 🙏🙏 I really love his style and want to incorporate it in my own style

[@deondoesloans]

Good video. Please stake that beautiful plant in the background.

[@allfirstnames]

Curren$y - Stolen: did the first sample some justice

[@flybugsmusic]

Great video

[@wellfedstarvingartist]

I listen to music way more than I make music but I don't think anyone can copy a guy like Madlib or Dilla. If you really study what these guys were doing, THEY probably couldn't tell you how every sound in their catalog was made

[@agape7714]

A video of 2 hour long when?

[@sawomirrembiesa2993]

very important episode!

[@OS96]

if anyone can help me with this.. there is this track from madlib with stacy epps called "the way that i live" and at the very end at minute 3:57 there is this beat switch but shortly afterwards the beat already fades out and the track ends. but man, this beat there at the end sounds so amazing to me and i always wondered if there is a full or at least longer version of this beat somewhere. if anyone knows, please let me know ✌️

[@itzlifzt9501]

YOO Michał Urbaniak feat. Urszula Dudziak - A Day in the park was used in Polish rapper song too. Check out Belmondawg - Fresh Air

[@Ayplus]

Lol I was waiting on this one. Madlib is super complex

[@luiscarmona1627]

I need you to do three six mafia “anyone out there” it was made by sampling two few second clips from two different films.

[@whomadethatbeat]

DAMN!!! I’m gonna cook that NAZZ!!!

[@deeoats2329]

Raw 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Ericisyourmuse]

leave it raw can be confused to many beat maker and artist, I know Im one of them. Try to feel it instead of using tricks and tip, when you learn new trick and try to apply that new trick, you are actually learning, not cooking beat. Cooking requires mainly feeling, all those tricks already in your blood, you don’t think about it, just feel your way thru the cooking process. In my experience, even feeling what you cook actually really hard, you got tunnel vision when you start cooking. You need to practice out of body while cooking beat. it a very strange sensation, but only then you can start truly instinctively knowing if your beat is good or not.

[@c3710-k8g]

Subbed

[@invaderp3155]

On Madvillain’s Rhinestone Cowboy Madlib made a woman’s voice sound like the bassline that’s when I knew he was the goat

[@wwjnz9263]

Navie just dropped sample based Life Hacks on this one! Ripping from YT. I used to do just that. LOL

[@Hesamiii]

Who cares what a beat is made on. It's what you do with what you got.

[@tur-nips]

on the example of what normal producers would have done in the begining: WHAT THE FUCK, thats not normal producer

[@martinwalters8677]

Yea the beat he did was actually good

[@tur-nips]

i know@@martinwalters8677

[@tur-nips]

@TELE.GRAM-MrNavieD whaaaaatt??

[@brodytrumpet]

Hey, it sounds like you do real research to put our talks together. Like how the heck do you so often find the samples that were used for those productions? Like with this video. That would also make a great youtube talk. You doing your searching and discovering! But maybe you already have one. Just an idea. Maximum respect. I'd love to know what you think of Plunderphonics and John Oswald!! I'd be so happy to hear your opinion of him!! That's some serious sampling!! I payed with Orb and we did a live version of Little Fluffy Clouds here in Berlin. That was cool (I play trumpet as well as compose. )

[@sundalo916]

RIP 45 King

[@Bazerk1972]

Can you make a video dedicated to Kaytranada, his basslines are very unique. Like to see your view on that. 👌🏻 I like your video’s a lot.

[@CVinyl]

I used to go record digging with Otis It's all about the records he samples #DITC

[@allieboy181]

Question navie is it easier to get away with sampling foreign records? Like do they have legal jurisdiction in the US?

[@peterkeleher]

i purely add a 'like' on your videos because of your inventive excuses to ask like and subscribe - no pressure lol

[@inthegutter78]

i used that fake names sample too same part of it too and when i heard his i damn near had to delete it

[@knowEgo]

Madlib is one of my favorite producers- for awhile he was my favorite producer! To keep with the theme of this video(Simple) Example; if you go to the club and shoot your shot at 50 girls you’ll get about 10-15 number but if you just shoot your shot at 5 girls you might leave empty handed! Point is Madlib’s a volume producer….that’s his secret!!

[@bryanmb9994]

Who's is your fav now !?

[@knowEgo]

@@bryanmb9994 my favorite producer now is a cat named ARCHITECT he’s an underground producer but has produced for guys like Planet Asia, Opio from Souls of Mischief and a guy name Nowaah the Fiood! Check out an album called “Thrill Life Mathematics by Nowaah The Flood that album was solely produced by Architect!

[@rasaanshakur9491]

Is that the new serato??