Check out GIANT’s exclusive Q&A with emerging LA producer Exile, who dropped his new LP Radio this week.

Sometimes it’s cool to just be fueled by the boom-bip without following an MC’s lyrical ride.

Flying Lotus: Los Angeles (Warp)

Obvious statement: My man Madlib can’t sit still. He just released Sujihno, a collabo with Brazilian drummer Mamão of the band Azymuth, re-imagined the classic Madvillain project with Madvillainy 2, and trumpeted his boy by dedicating his latest Beat Konducta installment, Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite, to Jay Dilla. Ok already, time for a vacation. But no, that would be too easy…