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Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note

remix album by Madlib

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7460313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note is a remix album by American hip-hop producer Madlib over the archives of Blue Note Records. It was officially released by Blue Note Records on June 24, 2003.

Reception

Sam Samuelson of AllMusic said, "Intent listening doesn't really give much up, but for smooth subconscious grooves, it's perfect."

In 2014, Paste placed it at number 11 on their "12 Classic Hip-Hop Albums That Deserve More Attention" list.

Editorial summary

“Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note” enters the record as remix album by Madlib. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shades, Blue and Madlib can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shades, Blue and Madlib.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shades, Blue and Madlib provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7460313. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2014.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.