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But Dilla was not the first artist to be considered by the label for its inaugural Beat Generation release. That distinction would initially go to Kenny Dope of Masters At Work, then to Jazzy Jeff, yet both were hesitant at the time. "It was very different, for the first time in your life, someone giving you the opportunity to basically say who you are as a producer," Jeff told Wax Poetics magazine in 2006. "Because a lot of us are under the hypnotism of the industry, I had no idea what to do. He [Adarkwah] gave me complete freedom, and as much as I begged for that, I got scared because it's kind of like, 'What do you do when somebody gives you complete freedom?'" Short answer: You become Madlib.
"Madlib was not consciously meant to be last in the series," says BBE's Adarkwah, but when considering the producer to which he is most often associated - the late J Dilla - it is without question the proper closure. "Blacktronica should be the future," Adarkwah declares, and he should know best, for it is Blacktronica that has already helped define his storied label's past and present.page << 1 2 3 >>
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