There are a couple identifiable letdowns, though: The lighthearted "Curls" has been mutated into the claustrophobic "Pearls" and, like a lot of the tracks, it takes forever for Doom's verse to actually start, the natural side effect of tacking on another minute's worth of music to 90 or so seconds' worth of lyrics. Its transformation into bass-rattling, Dilla-esque minimalism with a ghostly choir backdrop results in maybe the single best beat on the whole album, but with the tone altered so drastically it's hard to call it either an improvement or a letdown compared to the original. "Accordion", for instance- well, there's no accordion anymore, and it's been renamed "Borrowed Time". And no matter how hot the beats get on Madvillainy 2: the Madlib Remix, it's hard to sit back and let everything click into place, not when you've had more than four years to let the original etch itself into your brain. That's a risky idea: It's a thankless task to create a completely remixed version of an album that was already borderline-perfect. Apparently Madlib got so impatient sitting around waiting for Doom to record some new verses for a followup to their classic 2004 collaboration that he just up and grafted a bunch of new beats to Doom's old verses. And where's the Madvillainy sequel? Because this ain't it.
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