I am bacc....You Beezy's!!!!!!

Its been a while just had to adjust my browser(my dumb ass) but I will be here posting my thought on the current state in hip hop and production. So stay tuned.......

It's been a year Dilla!!!

The first time I heard the name Jay Dee was probably from the back of Tribe Called Quest's "Beats Rhymes Life' album. The sound was quite different- I hadn't heard anything like it. The basslines were bouncy all over the track sort of the way Dancehall rhythms were also the way the drums drop with the bass but was still in the pocket.Some critics said he killed off tribe with his new sound but to me it was the rapping of Consequence. Then there were the tracks from De La Soul and the Pharcyde, 'Stakes is High' off De la soul's same named album was filtering at its finest! Pete Rock was a king at that but Dilla took it to the next level. Drop and Cant keep running away from Pharcyde's "Labcabincalifornia' set the production standard bar up again by using bossanova on the latter track. Countless production from other artist from his hometown Detroit as well as Common, Erykah Badu, and The Roots. But why im really writing this is because of what folks meant to me. Dilla was a master of sampling, he could loop, chop and also use the phrase from a song to compliment anything he made. I considered myself a sampling disciple coming from the cloth of Marley Marl, Bomb Squad, DJ Premier, and last but not least the great Pete Rock but when I heard Jay Dee's techniques made me go back and rethink the art. I always made tight beats but i had to go back and read my MPC manuel and study dilla's beats especially after the "Donuts" LP. After my folks AT told me the definition of a donut-A beat that cant be rapped over or at least you might think so, I found we had the same affinity for making the track talk and not the mc speaking over the track. As a mc I was delighted rhyming over a Dilla track too- they were always a treat. As I sit here listening to the stonesthrow podcast of "We love Dilla" act 2, I cant help but think of what the man was and what he couldve been. He was the King of the boom bap and the king of the off kilter claps. I hear a lot of Dilla clones but there is only one and I dont want to be Jay Dee but I have snatch pages from his text!!! And since its february I bring with my MPC 2000xl with me to school out of respect to man, we all miss and Love you James Yancey aka Jay Dee aka J Dilla aka TURN IT UP!!!!!!!!!