PRE-ORDER: MADVILLAIN - MADVIALLAINY DEMOS Vinyl LP

PLEASE NOTE: This item is a pre-order and is scheduled to be released on January 31, 2025. All orders including this item will ship on or around the release date. If your order includes additional items, your entire order will be held until all items are ready to ship. All scheduled ship dates are estimates and subject to change.

In 2002, the first demo sequence of Madvillainy leaked online. The tracks contained early vocal cuts from MF DOOM, recorded and quickly mixed in Los Angeles at Madlib's Bomb Shelter studio. The demos may have been unfinished, but fans understood that this was a hip-hop album unlike any other.

DOOM rerecorded vocals – alluding to the leak on “Rhinestone Cowboy” – and Madlib added new beats and changed up the sequence. Leaks could kill an album’s momentum in the early 2000s, but the demos only whetted fans' appetites; when Madvillainy came out in 2004 it was "one of the most anticipated releases in underground rap history," according to Pitchfork. Madvillainy is now regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.