The American Dream hits different in the first trailer for Clika. On Thursday, Sony Pictures and Rancho Humilde launched the trailer for the film starring Herencia de Patrones’ Jay Dee as a fruit ...

Splice, the music creation platform used by over 2 million musicians, announced the release of "The Fantastic Sounds of Jay Dee," a collection of sounds cut from the original recordings of Jay Dee aka ...

It’s the late 1990s. James Dewitt Yancey — known as Jay Dee, and later as J Dilla — was already a well-known hip-hop beatmaker, working on records by A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, ...

Nature Sounds and N’Eastra Music are teaming up to release a new limited-edition producer kit featuring a collection of sounds cut from the original recordings of J Dilla. The producer kit, called The ...

“Batches” were what Jay called his musical dispatches—the primary way he communicated musically from his Detroit basement to the outside world. Another Batch is the crucial turning point, not only in ...

Detroit hip-hop producer and rapper Jay Dee, a.k.a. J Dilla, died on Friday at the age of thirty-two. He had battled lupus for three years, recently touring Europe in a wheelchair, but he concealed ...