Tagged: J Dilla
Drummer Karriem Riggins Pays Tribute to J Dilla’s Birthday
Today is the late, great James Yancey’s birthday, and since Stones Throw re-released Donuts as a 45 box set earlier this winter, it’s been hard to feel like there’s any other beat music more worth … read more »
Watch Questlove’s J Dilla-Inspired Boiler Room Set
Last month, Questlove, Flying Lotus and Joey Bada$$, among others, performed at a Red Bull Music Academy-hosted Boiler Room in NYC. As always, the entire thing was streamed live, but now Questo’s entire hour-long, J … read more »
Video: Danny Brown, “Jay Dee’s Revenge” (Prod. J Dilla)
Recent FADER #78 cover star Danny Brown goes in over some unearthed J Dilla production, and the results are just as great as you’d expect. “Jay Dee’s Revenge,” the first single from the upcoming, posthumous … read more »
Download Questlove’s J Dilla Tribute Mix
Every Friday this February, Hot 97′s Mister Cee is handing over his “Throwback at Noon” hour to guest DJs celebrating Black History Month with “Black Fist Friday” mixes. Last week Cee talked with Pete Rock … read more »
J Dilla: Shine On
In this 2006 feature from FADER #42, collaborators and family tell the stories behind some of the late J Dilla’s great productions. Think twice, youngbloods, precocious hoodrats, beatbox prodigies. Somewhere in the fine print of … read more »
Video: Guilty Simpson, “Cali Hills” (Live in Detroit)
Here’s Guilty Simpson in his hometown of Detroit performing “Cali Hills,” a song about working with the late J Dilla, who helped give Simpson his first official release in 2003, and with Madlib, who worked … read more »
Video: Guilty Simpson Stays Inspired in Detroit
Guilty Simpson calls natives of his Detroit hometown “over-worked and under-appreciated,” and it’s clear he’s describing himself too. But keep hope! There’s a positive turn toward the end of the doc when he looks back … read more »
Video: J Dilla “Lightworks”
James McMillan’s video for J Dilla’s “Lightworks” (part of the Stones Throw 15th anniversary video contest) plays on the song’s saccharine sample of a ’50s-style commercial spot with its mid-century-style animation that seems sorta kid … read more »
Video: J Dilla, “Last Donut of the Night”
Five years after its original release, J Dilla‘s final LP Donuts gets its first label-approved video. This clip for album highlight “Last Donut of the Night” is a handpicked entry from Stones Throw’s Video Contest, … read more »
Video: Jay Electronica, “Dimethyltryptamine”
If you can still recall the olden days of 2009, you might remember that Roc Nation signee and underground rap’s favorite mystical underachiever Jay Electronica was running around Asia, shooting loose footage and offering tantalizing, … read more »
