Remembering Dilla

February 08th, 2009

I should have posted this yesterday. Yesterday would have been J Dilla’s 35th birthday. The truth is, I couldn’t bring myself to decide what to post to remember my favorite producer so I just shied away from it. But it doesn’t feel right not posting anything. Here’s the wonderful, posthumous video for one of my favorite Dilla joints which for a long time was a secret weapon of mine. Before being re-released by Stones Throw, the Ruff Draft EP was a rare piece of vinyl only available on import from a German label. I’m glad everyone can enjoy it now, because this song in particular (“Nothing Like This”) is really unlike anything I’ve ever heard to this day… as the title suggests, after all.

Rest in peace James Yancey. Still the best that ever did it, if you ask me.

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7 Responses to “Remembering Dilla”

  1. soops says:
    February 8, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    thats real.
    r.i.p.
    happy birthday dilla dawg!!

  2. shanetron says:
    February 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Thanks.

    RIP Big Pun, too. He passed away on Dilla’s birthday.

  3. Danny G says:
    February 8, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    wow. truly an amazing producer, so far ahead of his time. R.I.P. Dilla

  4. darey says:
    February 9, 2009 at 6:28 am

    its my birthday today.
    happy birthday to dilla. R.I.P man.

  5. G says:
    February 10, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    perfect choice… and a great video too.

    Happy Birthday Jay Dee

  6. Daggert says:
    February 12, 2009 at 4:20 am

    R.I.P

    so many tracks, so many bangers… really no one comes close

  7. Flowinsky says:
    February 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Thank-You for posting that joint. That whole shit was a master piece but for me that joint, the plastic cups joint both really stood out to me as some of his best work period.

    Flo

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