J Dilla’s musical legacy will be remembered in another posthumous album that’s set for release next month. Motor City is an instrumental project featuring rare beats created by the late producer. The ...

It's been a little over nine and a half years since J. Dilla passed away, but the rap world's hunger for his music never seems sated. While the tributes and remixes and unauthorized compilations are ...

Nearly 20 unreleased J Dilla instrumentals will be the focus of Motor City, a collection of the late producer’s work curated and sequenced by his mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey. The compilation ...

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A vocal companion to Dilla's instrumental sleeper on Stones Throw, "Donuts," which was also recorded in the hospital, "The Shining" documents the totality of who Jay Dee was as an artist and… By ...

With so much music being created, shared, and stored digitally these days, it’s easy to take for granted the easy access to rarities and behind-the-scenes snippets that at one point would have been ...

J Dilla's Donuts, the seminal 2006 record that helped make its creator a hip hop legend, was never meant to be released as an album at all. Wolf told the audience how, by 2006, Dilla was in high ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Okay, for those of you not attuned to underground instrumental hip-hop, perhaps that ...

The late hip-hop producer J Dilla was full of unique ideas. But adding Busta Rhymes’ vocals to a track that combined window-rattling bass thuds with a kazoo interpretation of “Flight of the Bumblebee” ...