WLIB AM: King Of The Wigflip
by Madlib
  • Record Label: Rapster
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2008
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Spin
    60
    Too bad inconsistent vocal performances from Prince Po to MED, tempt you to switch the dial on this hour-long jam. [Nov 2008, p.96]
  2. Mojo
    60
    WLIB AM is best taken as a whole. [Nov 2008, p.116]
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  3. Uncut
    60
    There's a sense that he's doing little more than cobbling together offcuts from his recent stream of projects. [Dec 2008, p.105]
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  5. PopMatters
    60
    As often as it seems like Madlib might be a genius, there are records like this that prove true the old adage of “quality versus quantity.”
  6. Prefix Magazine
    50
    Wigflip feels like the type of thing Madlib could churn out on any given lazy Sunday afternoon.
  7. NOW Magazine
    40
    The sick is far outweighed by the sloppy as the selection shifts from slo-mo chronic puffers to wobbly boozer bumps bracketed by two thugged-out rips by Guilty Simpson.

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User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. clem666
    Sep 10, 2021
    5
    I listened to 'Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes' (2006) few months ago and I enjoyed it a lot (I gave it a 8/10). So I don't deny the factI listened to 'Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes' (2006) few months ago and I enjoyed it a lot (I gave it a 8/10). So I don't deny the fact that I compared these two albums which are similar in their core but yet very different. It is obvious, after such an experience, that albums from Madlib like those should be taken as a whole. Listening to them in any other way seems really deleterious.

    On 'WLIB AM King of the Wigflip' Madlib also invites some friends of his as Guilty Simpson, Oh No, M.E.D or Talib Kweli. Together they deliver some (more or less) valuable bars on Madlib's production. If beat switches, radio interludes, gritty rhythms and obscure samples are part of Madlib's work in general, the combination of it all sounds more chaotic and unstructured as ever here. Where songs almost naturally fused into each others on 'Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes', on 'WLIB AM King of the Wigflip' on the opposite a lot feels forced and jerky as it contributes to leave some bad print on me. Many phases unfortunately sound really underwhelming as on 'Take That Money', 'Gambe on ya Boy', 'Go!' or 'What It Do'.

    In the end this project feels really unconvincing since the quantity overpasses the quality just as if Madlib wanted to keep each and every phase and sound he worked on in order to craft this album.    … Full Review »
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