The jazz trumpet player leaves behind a far-reaching legacy.
Late beatmaking icon J. Dilla produced a handful of tracks on the 2009 sequel to Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., but this cut, a tribute to the Ol' Dirty Bastard, was the most poignant, with two rap legends speaking from beyond the grave on ...
Dilla created the bulk of this album, but it was completed and polished up by his friend Karriem Riggs, another soulful Detroit producer, after his death. Though it's hard to say what exactly the album would've sounded like if Dilla had seen it th...
Late, legendary Detroit MC-producer J. Dilla split from his Detroit crew Slum Village around 2002 to focus on his solo career and act as producer for other artists, including Common, De La Soul and Ghostface Killah, though he still contributed bea...
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...
Illa J's beats and rhymes definitely recall the laidback Detroit swing of his older brother, legendary Detroit producer/MC J. Dilla—and that's a good thing.
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