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 ...

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 ...

The J Dilla beat tape includes instrumental versions of "It's Goin' Down," "The Jam," and "Runnin'." Mad Skillz recently restored a beat tape the late J Dilla once gave to him. On Monday, Skillz ...

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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 ...

The late James Yancey, a.k.a. J Dilla, photographed in 2000 at the Key Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. (Gregory Bojorquez / Getty Images) The first time you hear an instrumental track ...