What is so special about J. Dilla?

[rip.dilla]

Did he produce "the light"?

Actually produced roughly 3/4 of Like Water For Chocolate alongside ?uestlove of The Roots and the production crew they both were under known as The Ummah (Q-Tip and Raphael Saadiq were members too.. )

 

[achewon87]

Undercover Dilla appreciation thread?...

Nas - The Season


Common - Love Is...


Elzhi - Love It Here


Erykah Badu - Didn't Cha Know


Slum Village - Climax


Ghostface Killah - Beauty Jackson

 

[Lab Baby]

Did he produce "the light"?

Actually produced roughly 3/4 of Like Water For Chocolate alongside ?uestlove of The Roots and the production crew they both were under known as The Ummah (Q-Tip and Raphael Saadiq were members too.. )

?uestlove was in Ummah? I don't wanna question your knowledge, brother... but I think you're thinking about Soulquarians, they did most of LWFC. Ummah was just Dilla, Tip and Ali Shaheed.

 

[rip.dilla]

Did he produce "the light"?

Actually produced roughly 3/4 of Like Water For Chocolate alongside ?uestlove of The Roots and the production crew they both were under known as The Ummah (Q-Tip and Raphael Saadiq were members too.. )

?uestlove was in Ummah? I don't wanna question your knowledge, brother... but I think you're thinking about Soulquarians, they did most of LWFC. Ummah was just Dilla, Tip and Ali Shaheed.

Soulquarians and The Ummah were interchangeable really and were all under the same musical umbrella and ?uestlove was actually credited with production duties on LWFC.

D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Karriem Riggins all friends and colleagues of Dilla and were part of that collective.. .

 

[Dave2one6]

Did he produce "the light"?

Did he produce or copy and paste?

bobby caldwell open your eyes

 

[_God_]

So what I'm getting is dilla was goat neo soul/backpack producer. Respect. The Badu didn't cha know puts him in that Quincy jones class pause.

 

[Fosheezy]

Did he produce "the light"?

yep. that's one of his more known records. there's a remix version too :

smash

 

[_God_]

The thing that confused me by hearing dilla fans was him being a producer and them referring to his work he did by himself , which basically instrumentals . I understand bc I can listen to a lot of alc instrumentals

 

[Roster Player #99]

this flip


/thread

 

[Roster Player #99]

then reopen the thread then hear this....


then /thread.

 

[StillFaggyAF]

Did he produce "the light"?

Did he produce or copy and paste?

bobby caldwell open your eyes

Lol at this post

 

[_God_]

then reopen the thread then hear this....


then /thread.

http://youtu.be/Tfp-2jp8M3w

How can dilla be praised so much but alchemist not recieve the same if not more love. I know dilla is prolly a major influence of alc but I alc makes a more soulful beat while dilla seems make jazz beats.

 

[natural born sinners]

Did he produce "the light"?

Yeeeess baby!

Thanks for the confirmation beat was mad chill

 

[BobOblah]

 

[Roster Player #99]

Did he produce "the light"?

Yeeeess baby!

Thanks for the confirmation beat was mad chill

kys

 

[obnoxiouslyfresh]

Dilla is one of those few that I can actually remember where I was when I found out he passed. That speaks to his greatness.

 

[Fosheezy]

First Dilla song I heard was One Won't Do when I came across the video in a hip hop site in 2006. I remember having trouble figuring out what the video was about as it almost seemed like a tribute to someone who died but at the time I had no idea it was him the guy rapping that had died or who he was. I thought illa J was the nigga rapping. I remember thinking "hmm I don't know where this guy came from but he not bad! Plus he knows common William and talib. And kept replaying that shit like over and over. Lol. Then few weeks went by and terminology did a song on the Two Can Win beat I notice he mention the name Dilla. Still didn't know who he was. Next thing i knew, a 3 years and some change went by without me hearing much else about this Dilla guy, then, out of nowhere, that same year in 2010 some how I find myself in Best Buy copping the jay stay paid album. Can't remember how or what lead me to it but I knew to buy it. That's when I start digging found out he died back on 2006 started connecting the dots on all that shit I heard on One Wont Do and all. And From there I start studying his whole shit.

That same year in 2010 I discovered Nujabes by accident from a hip hop documentary that just so happen to play Just Forget instrumental in the credits and it caught my ear . Found out Nujabes died that same year I discovered him in 2010 similar to how I didn't discover Dilla till after death . Dug into Nujabes catalog for a few months and got hooked for a while but then went back to Dilla months later. Couldn't believe how much material I was finding on him. And I gotta thank God for him My life really haven't been the same ever since I got heavy into Dilla

 

[mosincredible]

Dilla's music changed my life before I even knew it did. One of my favorite songs as a kid was Pharcyde's Drop. I didn't even know what a producer was but that beat was ridiculous to me.


I started reading the album booklets around then and saw the name "Jay Dee" in there. Didn't know if it was Jermaine Dupri or not back then until I started to do more research. Been following and listening to anything involving him since. The hard kicks, the euphoric sounds, the bounce, those sine wave basslines. I could listen to shit like this all day.

 

[nickel-us P]

I get chills whenever stop plays on the shuffle

 

[rapmusic]

Man I get tired of people having to make excuses as to why they like Dilla. "He's an acquired taste" or "he's not for everybody." Wtf? People love to shit on Dilla or call him overrated or something, but be calling other producers the GOAT. Other producers who are probably just as good but not better than Dilla. He is one of the best to ever do it and it's time people realized that. Use your googles!