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How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album For decades, the producer and rapper Madlib had no interest in synthesizing his disparate works into a single statement. So the electronic music producer Four Tet took matters into his own hands. The producer Four Tet always wanted his prolific friend Madlib to make a solo album. The result is their collaboration “Sound Ancestors.”Credit...Left to right: Nathan Bajar for The New York Times, Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times By Eric Ducker Jan. 27, 2021 For almost three decades, Madlib has remained an elusive yet prolifi...

On Wednesday night, I watched a descendant of slaves take the podium at the US presidential inauguration of Joseph Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris. Her name is Amanda Gorman. The ceremony itself was loaded with significance because we saw America elect its first female vice-president. One often feels that we are the generation that has seen almost everything. Here I refer to the people born between 1960 and 2020, give or take on both ends of the dates. We have seen tyrants come and go, pandemics of science fiction proportion, leaps of science, the invention of the internet, the resigna...