Madlib Medicine Show No. 9 - Channel 85 Presents Nittyville

Madlib follows his detour into jazz with a punch-you-in-the-face return to hip-hop form -- a collaborative album with Detroit rapper Frank Nitti. Madlib and Detroit-based rapper Frank Nitti first collaborated on Jaylib's 'McNasty Filth,' from the seminal Champion Sound album. Back then, Frank was one half of the rap-duo Frank n' Dank and he and his partner were the late J.Dilla's go-to MCs. Madlib liked what he heard; he promised Frank that one day, he would work with the budding rapper on an album. Seven years, hundreds of beats, a bunch of blunt smoke and far too many cross-country trips later, and this is the result: a hazy, funk-filled rap album, done as only the Beat Konducta can do.