Something interesting is happening in the “Progressive R&B” category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Four of the six nominated albums contain songs that bear the unmistakable rhythmic signature of a ...

The beat was originally played by Questlove during a Red Bull Music Academy lecture. For many J Dilla fans, Donuts marks the late producer's final transmission. Recorded in the hospital as his health ...

The rap superstar drops three albums and addresses his ongoing rivalries and feuds with Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and more. We break it all down. 1 day ago Nitt, a childhood friend of the late producer ...

Seventeen years later, Jay Stay Paid remains more than just a collection of unreleased recordings. It stands as another ...

Dilla Time by Dan Charnas MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux One way to conceive Dilla is as the 21st-century James Brown, whose edict that every Famous Flame was playing a drum bore fruit with the seminal ...

It’s no secret that J Dilla had a profound influence on beatmakers around the world. But now, thanks to music creation library Splice, you can evoke the iconic producer’s sounds into your own ...

Only days after hip-hop’s beloved auteur and beat-charmer James “Jay Dee aka J Dilla” Yancey died of complications from lupus, hip-hop Web sites began selling T-shirts with a new motto: “J Dilla ...

When I think of an album that will stick with me for the rest of my life, I instantly think about J Dilla’s Donuts. J Dilla, or Jay Dee, is a Detroit hip-hop legend. Born James Dewitt Yancey, Yancey ...

Three years ago today (February 10), Hip-Hop culture lost one of its most innovative and influential producers in Detroit’s James Dewitt Yancey, AKA J Dilla. Blessed with strong musical genes from an ...

Stem Player, the company made famous for its exclusive debut of Kanye West’s Donda album, will be premiering some never before heard beats from the late J Dilla. The company has already dropped two ...

The legacy of Detroit music producer J Dilla will be celebrated with the opening of the multimedia exhibition, "I Got Beats in these Fingertips" Friday, July 12, at Wayne State University. This ...

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