Today, February 10th is Dilla Day to musicians, vinyl junkies, drumheads and beat connoisseurs worldwide--commemorating cold-hearted L.A. that day we lost one of the GOAT, just a few short days after ...
Dilla even hooked Ye up with some of his signature drums to use in the future, according to Common. By Michael Saponara Kanye West has shown the late J Dilla a ton of love throughout his career, but ...
Song Athletics is a new(ish) company launched by former Spitfire Audio CEO Will Evans. Late last year, it launched with Some Drums, a sample pack featuring drum loops recorded by drummer Marc Pell on ...
The late producer/rapper James “J Dilla” Yancey had his signature sound: thick drums, expertly placed samples, and melodic keyboards (think A Tribe Called Quest’s “1nce Again”). But on Ruff Draft, ...
O n February 10th 2006, Hip-Hop lost one of its true innovators when James “J Dilla/Jay Dee” Yancey passed away due to complications from Lupus. In a relatively short span of time J Dilla created an ...
Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, the mother of the late J Dilla, is planning to release a box set of her son's beats called The King of Beats (Ma Dukes Yancey Collector's Edition Box Set), as Rolling Stone ...
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 artist born James Dewitt Yancey went from an in-the-know talent from Detroit's underground scene to working with some of hip hop's most influential names - including De La Soul, The Roots, Q-Tip, ...
Kanye West has shown the late J Dilla a ton of love throughout his career, but it isn’t widely known that the hip-hop production icons had the chance to actually meet in person before Dilla’s death.
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