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Oxnard

Ventura County, CA
Crate-dug loops · library records · one-take beats
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Story, bloodline and 5 names

An hour up the coast, a farming town produced hip hop's most prolific studio mind. Madlib and the Lootpack made records out of jazz obscurities and Brazilian LPs nobody had flipped, and effectively wrote the aesthetic that Stones Throw exported worldwide.

Bloodline · 3 stops from The Bronx
  1. 1973The Bronx
  2. 1984South Central (LA)
  3. 1989Leimert Park (LA)
  4. 1996Oxnard

TransferQueens

Madlib grew up inside his father's record collection and Tribe's and Pete Rock's loops, an hour outside a city whose underground was already thriving. Stones Throw made that distance a house style.

LootpackStones ThrowCrate Diggas Palace
Roster
1999
Madlibdeep cut

The Loop Digga. Plays every part, releases everything, sleeps rarely.

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1999
Lootpackdeep cut

Soundpieces: Da Antidote — the foundational Stones Throw record.

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2004
Oh Nodeep cut

Madlib's brother; the harder, dirtier drums of the family.

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2004
Madvillain

Madlib + MF DOOM. The most-loved underground rap album of the century.

YTW
2016
Anderson .Paak

Oxnard's other export — drummer, singer, rapper, all at once.

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