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J. Dilla

J.Dilla’s “Sunbeams” is from The 1996 What Up Doe Sessions.  The title comes from how many Detroiters greet each other by saying “What Up Doe?” The song was built with Joe Sample’s “Black Is The Color” and Grady Tate’s “Be Black Baby.” “Sunbeams” was another instance of Dilla’s genius understandingContinue Reading

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It’s been four years already since James “J.Dilla” Yancey passed from a blood disease almost as rare as his talent. To those familiar with his music or knew him before he passed this day has become an industry and worldwide mantra to try to lift his status to where itContinue Reading

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