Those are the breaks

Fill up those bags with whatever it is you carry around in there, hip-hop backpackers, because one of the more creative cats working right now, DJ, producer, musician, and rapper Madlib, rolls into town tonight with the 2K Sports Bounce Tour. His abstract, genre-hopping style has smoothed out tracks from artists like MF DOOM, Ghostface Killah, De La Soul, and Talib Kweli, among many others. Also performing is Stones Throw Records label head Peanut Butter Wolf, one of the pioneers in the rebirth of the '90s hip-hop DJ movement with records like "Peanut Butter Breaks." 18+ 7 p.m. $18. The Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 617-931-2000. ticketmaster.com