10 Key J Dilla Beats

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10 Key J Dilla Beats

James Yancey, aka J Dilla, was undoubtedly the most slept-on hip hop beatmaker ever when he was alive. But in his death, six years ago today (February 10), he's achieved hip hop sainthood, a mythical cult figure to those lucky enough to have heard his pioneering productions. His influence on hip hop's sonic landscape is hard to underestimate; his work was the blueprint for late '90s and early 2000s neosoul icons, including Jill Scott and D'Angelo, anchored the sound of Common, Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip, and was a huge inspiration to the Neptunes, The Roots and others. Here, we took on the difficult task of distilling his lengthy track record to these 10 key moments — whether turning points or benchmarks in his career or ground-breaking master works that are still blowing minds today. There is nothing like this ... —Alex Gale

 

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