![]() In the following excerpt from Dan Charnas’ excellent new book, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (MacMillan, out Feb. Within a couple of years, Dilla’s digital broken beats would permeate hip-hop, R&B, and pop and more important, be adopted by a generation of traditional musicians.ĭilla, who died in 2006, has become an iconic figure in rap history. The rhythms he was generating on his MPC drum machine had started to “limp,” fusing straight and swung grooves into a revolutionary new sonic language. But Yancey’s music was going through a bizarre transformation. James Dewitt Yancey - known as Jay Dee, and later as J Dilla - was already a well-known hip-hop beatmaker, working on records by A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, and The Pharcyde as part of a production collective called the Ummah, started by his mentor Q-Tip. ![]()
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