Table of Contents

1. The Daily Daily vs. Music Journalism
2. Preface
3. MF DOOM
4. Madlib
5. Like a Folklore Legend
6. Madvillain
7. The Next Decade(s)
Acknowledgments
Notes

Promotional Information

Unpacks the complex layers of Madvillainy, the 2004 classic collaborative LP between producer Madlib and rapper MF DOOM, whose success both relied on and rejected the tendencies of the social media age

About the Author

Will Hagle is a writer from Champaign who lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Hagle’s Madvillainy is one of the best of the series because it jettisons the stale rules of music writing (no forced canonization needed here!) in favor of a narrative structure that echoes the album’s aesthetics.
*Southwest Review*