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My heart🍩🖤 Rest in Beats Dilla!

Erykah Badu by Questlove

All of these albums are classics to me. I love the work this group was able to accomplish, I wish we could have a reunion or something… but it won’t be the same without J Dilla.

SOULO

Left to Right: Talib Kweli, Common (kneeling), Mos Def, James Poyser, Erykah Badu, Questlove, D'Angelo, Q-Tip, J Dilla (kneeling), Bilal

It’s that time of year again for the annual ritual, folks. Today (as well as the entire month of February), hip hop heads worldwide respectively celebrate Dilla Day/Dilla Month in remembrance of highly influential and prolific hip hop production genius J Dilla, aka Jay Dee; He would have turned 44 today. On this same day 12 years ago (and just three days before Dilla’s untimely death), the Detroit beat wizard’s magnum opus, Donuts, was released. A beat tape of short hip hop instrumentals that perfectly demonstrate the Detroit beatsmith’s sampling and crafting skills, Dilla flips tons of old soul, funk and jazz samples, chopped to perfection and layered beautifully with an array of drum sounds and other effects. Happy Dilla Day/Month and Rest In Beats James DeWitt “J Dilla” Yancey (1974-2006) ……

Happy Birthday you two Rest In Beats

J Dilla

Donuts

RIP Jay Dee

DILLA 4 EVER 🍩

Just listened the entire length of @Bilal debut… never get over how sick this LP is. I will now find his new stuff… #asap

Shot by Spencer Charles

Bilal Sayeed Oliver