{"title":"J Dilla","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Dewitt Yancey made beats the way other people breathe — constantly, instinctively, and without a ceiling on what was possible. Working out of Detroit under the name Jay Dee and later J Dilla, he redefined the feel of hip-hop production by loosening the grid, burying the swing, and making imperfection sound like the only honest option. He produced for A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Common, Busta Rhymes, D'Angelo, and Erykah Badu before most of them knew who he was. He died in 2006 at 32, three days after his debut vocal album Donuts was released from his hospital bed. Everything here — from Jay Love Japan to Dillatronic — comes from the years after, presented by his mother Ma Dukes as the catalog he never got to deliver himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"j-dilla-donuts","title":"Donuts (2xLP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonuts was released on February 7 2006, J Dilla's 32nd birthday. He died three days later. Made while Dilla was hospitalized, the album is 31 beats built from samples no one else would have thought to use, stitched together in a logic that only makes sense after you stop trying to follow it. There is no more personal production record in hip-hop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVINYL LP\u003c\/strong\u003e — 2xLP, Black Vinyl — Stones Throw Records, 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLP 1 — Side A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col start=\"1\"\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWorkinonit\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWaves\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLight It Up\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Diff'rence\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStop\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eJungle Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDon't Cry\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLP 1 — Side B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col start=\"9\"\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSo Far to Go (feat. 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After Dilla's death in early 2006 it became a lost classic, circulating only as bootlegs and promos. An official CD came out in 2008 and went immediately out of print. This 2016 vinyl pressing, presented by Dilla's mother Ma Dukes and her Vintage Vibez Music Group, is the release it always deserved: eleven tracks of late-period Dilla at his most soulful, with vocal appearances from Blu, Miguel, J*Davey, Ta'Raach, Exile, and Baatin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVINYL LP\u003c\/strong\u003e — Vintage Vibez Music Group, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSide A\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan't You See\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSun In My Face (ft. Blu \u0026amp; Miguel)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Streets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOh Oh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSay It (ft. Ta'Raach \u0026amp; Exile)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLucy (ft. 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