's final album in 1998 to material written in hospital stays during the last months of his life. The beats picked by Mr. Rock and Mrs. Yancey swing to...
Dilla's creative idol, mixed and arranged the album. Given that Dilla spent most of his career building ... on ideas laid down by Pete Rock and fellow...
When it comes to VIBEâs hotly contested Greatest Hip Hop Producer Of All Time Tournament, Erykah Badu has one clear-cut favorite.âHis name is Jame...
"Kaklow (Jump On It)" "Digi Dirt" ft. Phat Kat "Dilla Bot ... Vs. the Hybrid" ft. Danny Brown and Constantine "Milk Money" "Spacecowboy Vs. Bobble Hea...
early-90s rap production auteurs like Large Professor, Rock is a great choice to put this thing together. The mix will be mostly instrumental, but a f...
Team (Madlib and Karriem Riggins): "Interview #4080" Madlib's year-long, 12-album Medicine Show campaign is almost done. The eleventh record in the se...
Jaylib: "Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)" Back at the tail end of 2010, we told you about a previously unreleased J Dilla/Madlib collaboration that ap...
Tweet We have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of J Dilla's The Rebirth of Detroit since we first reported on it back in April of last year. But ne...
Tweet Next to Big Sean, Danny Brown's the newest gun pushing through the Detroit hip-hop scene into the mainstream, so it's only proper that he took t...
Tweet After you check out these rare photos of J Dilla's record collection studio, be sure to take a minute to stop what you're doing and appreciate s...
studio during his recording sessions with Common for 2000's Like Water For Chocolate. Here's the statement from The Doctor's Orders:"I came across the...
Tweet Six years (and one day) ago, J Dilla released what would be his final album of his life in the widely loved Donuts. While I could talk for hours...
Tweet Earlier this year, we saw footage of artists such as Boldy James and Chuck Inglish working on the planned new J Dilla album, The Rebirth of Detr...
Tweet As we're continuing to celebrate the life of J Dilla throughout the week of his birthday and sixth anniversary of his passing, I can't help but ...
Tweet As a means of showing their appreciation for J Dilla and to celebrate the music he gave the world, the guys of BADBADNOTGOOD performed a special...
Tweet It's terribly fitting that we're now hearing the original, Waajeed-produced version of J Dilla's Ruff Draft classic "Crushin'." As you likely kn...
If you want to own a record that once belonged to J Dilla and you live near Detroit, here's your chance. The Detroit News reports (via the Daily Swarm...
Tweet The late great J Dilla's record collection is for sale at a Detroit-area record store UHF. Read that again. UHF employee Jeff Bubeck claims he f...
Detroit-area vinyl obsessives will have to hold on to the contents of their piggy banks, at least for now. The sale of pieces from the vinyl collectio...
Tweet After uncovering 7,000-8,000 records left in an abandoned storage unit by the late J Dilla, it looked like Jeff Bubeck would simply sell the who...
Photo by Roger Erickson AllHipHop reports the latest in the lost-and-found J Dilla collection story, which has been remarkably snag-free. Jeff Bubeck,...
Tweet Five years after his death, it is testament to J Dilla's talent that even after four posthumous albums enough material is still emerging from th...
On June 12, Yancey Media Group and Ruff Draft will release Rebirth of Detroit, an album that features Detroit artists rapping over unreleased producti...
Danny Brown has amassed most of his sizable buzz over the last year or so, but he's also a veteran of Detroit's rap scene, and he worked with legendar...
Tweet Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, mother of the late, great producer J Dilla, has launched Ruff Draft Records. Beginning with the release of Rebirth of...
AllHipHop.com reports that J Dilla's mother, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, has started Ruff Draft Records, named after the 2003 Dilla EP. The label will ...
Tweet The "Bling 47 Breaks Dilla Edition" continues to examine the stories behind the samples on some of J Dilla's classic tracks. This week's webisod...
J Dilla's DILLATROIT 12" EP will be released May 25 in the U.S. and June 12 internationally via Mahogani Music, as FACT reports. The British dance mus...
Twelve tracks of previously unreleased J Dilla tracks are set to be released on May 25 in the U.S. and June 12 internationally, according to Juno Plus...
Tweet In just one day Ruff Draft Records will release Rebirth of Detroit, the posthumous album by Detroit hip-hop producer J Dilla. Yesterday saw the ...
album featuring Detroit residents Chuck Inglish and Boldy James. Featuring a murky beat with sunny bass, the song's roughly the 5,248th impressive tra...
Tweet The next posthumous J Dilla LP is out tomorrow. Entitled Rebirth of Detroit, the album was orchestrated by the late producer's mother, "Ma Dukes...
J Dilla: "Detroit Game" [ft. Boldy James and Chuck Inglish] (via SoundCloud) Tomorrow, Yancey Media Group and Ruff Draft release the posthumous J Dill...
J Dilla's highly anticipated posthumous release Rebirth of Detroit is available today, and yesterday saw the release of two tracks from it, both of wh...
Tweet J Dilla's official Soundcloud account is now streaming his new LP, Rebirth of Detroit. The posthumous record has plenty of Dilla's signature hor...
Photo by Roger Erickson A few unreleased J Dilla projects came to light this year in the form of DILLATROIT and Rebirth of Detroit. And according to t...
J Dilla: "The Diff'rence" (via SoundCloud) Stones Throw is offering even more J Dilla in 2013, and this one's pretty awesome: They're reissuing his ic...
Stones Throw has released J Dilla's classic 2006 LP Donuts as a special 7" box set. It features seven 45s, plus a bonus eighth featuring Dilla rarity ...
Last spring, a Michigan record store owner named Jeff Bubeck hit the jackpot when he stumbled upon thousands of lost items in a storage unit that once...
The late beat savant J Dilla would have been 39 years old today. In honor of Dilla's birthday, Yours Truly has posted a session with Detroit percussio...
The late rap production legend J Dilla recorded a ton of music before he died, and we still haven't heard all of it. A forthcoming Dilla album, The Di...
The late rap production legend J Dilla recorded a ton of music before he died, and we still haven't heard all of it. A forthcoming Dilla album, The Di...
Photo by Roger Erickson J Dilla: "Anthem" (via SoundCloud) Ever since J Dilla's death in 2006, a steady stream of posthumous material has been release...
On an upcoming episode of its famed Diggers web series, Fuse will explore the sampling history of the late great J Dilla. Using interviews with Talib ...
After teasing fans with a trailer earlier this week, Fuse has released the full episode of its "Crate Diggers" series featuring J Dilla. In the mini-d...
Diggers" is a video series from Fuse that profiles artists and their record collections. (Previous episodes have featured Pete Rock, Just Blaze, Cut C...
remained his study of different genres. As a result, his discography is as diverse as his style. He's collaborated with jazz icons such as Donald Byrd...
J Dilla: "Rebirth Is Necessary" (Instrumental) (via SoundCloud) Released last summer, Rebirth of Detroit featured a series of Detroit MCs rapping over...
J Dilla: "Trucks" (via SoundCloud) At some point this spring, we'll hopefully see The Diary, a lost vocal album completed by the late J Dilla in the e...
