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Madlib didn't like the sound of his voice (his friends in Oxnard call him 'Barry White' in reference to his deep voice) so he decided to slow his recorder down, rap slowly, then speed the recording back up to produce Quasimoto's distinctive high pitched sound.

It was in this polarized rap environment that Stones Throw Records put out Quasimoto's The Unseen, one of the strangest hip-hop albums to ever find success, and a true oddity that forged a new path for underground rap — apart from griping true-schoolers and mainstream materialists, both.May 5, 2020