# 3,890
Madvillain: “Money Folder” b/w “America’s Most Blunted” (2003)
I’m not here for “Money Folder” but instead it’s “America’s Most Blunted” I’m after. It’s the ultimate time machine for me. Any listen of the AA-side magically transports me to my absolute best time at Stony Brook: those cold months making sushi and eating night meals at Jasmine, house parties and lower-level events at the University Cafe, and finally meeting that broken girl who would forever change the course of my life. Even to this day, “America’s Most Blunted” has that effect on me every time I hear it. It’s like those months never left me because it still feels like it was yesterday.
The double AA-feature presented here is a trademark example of the legendary Madvillain’s sampling lunacy and beat supremacy, and only a couple of years in when Zed Love X resurfaced as MF DOOM (all caps) and started dominating the hip-hop / backpacker world. Two colorful verses of complimentary rap from DOOM and Madlib’s helium-pitched alter ego Quasimoto overlaying a skip-happy beat and some samples courtesy of Ron Jacobs’ A Child’s Garden Of Grass (1971) and Steve Reich’s “Come Out” (’66) all in the name of smoking advocacy. If you thought that was fun, then 2004′s Madvilliany is hip-hop / rap’s ultimate summer attraction. It took too long to get my hands on that album. Now, it’s finally mine.
