The Marvin Gaye-sampled tune is a dedication to Detroit's urban renewal, complete with shout-outs to fallen Detroiters Proof and J-Dilla. In many ways, the group defines balance and chemistry: Ketchphraze is the heart and self-appointed punch line ...
And for his first solo project, he unveils a third skill set with murky, chilled-out instrumental hip-hop in the vein of the late J Dilla. 17. Velociraptor - EP (self-released) Velociraptor is a great case study in just how fleetingly a promising act ...
Along with production by West, will.i.am and the late Detroit legend J. Dilla (So Far To Go) produce tracks. What's extraordinary about the best selling Finding Forever is that it was truly the people who made Common #1. With songs and an album that ...
Writer J. Everett Prewitt Receives Additional Awards Writer J. Everett Prewitt, of Cleveland, Ohio, has won three additional awards for his debut novel, Snake Walker. The author was the winner in the African-American Fiction category for the Best ...
With the tracks produced by Kanye West and J.Dilla, “Be” is considered a hip-hop classic. This summer should be more of the same as Common releases his newest album, “Finding Forever,” on July 31. “Finding Forever” should take off where ...
Busta took it back on a J Dilla beat," Jay said. "He used a beat Dilla gave him, and he did a Greg Nice flow: 'Bus-ssta Rhymes on the M.I.C., see!' He's having fun with it. He's actually doing an all-J Dilla mixtape soon, rapping over all-J Dilla ...
Cleveland favorite DJ Mick Boogie and rap superstar Busta Rhymes plan to keep alive the legacy of iconic music producer J Dilla with their newest mixtape compilation "Dillagence." Scheduled for online release today (November 27) "Dillagence" promises ...
You've worked with J Dilla. He’s a legend amongst legends. The best of the best look up to that man. What was that like? What kind of a person was he? It was so incredible working with Dilla! He was a humble guy and it didn't seem like he was the guy ...
Kanye, Jay, Puff, Ghostface, and (blessed be the dead) J-Dilla have all, of late, pressed and sampled soul-gold into servicing neo-blaxpolitation machismo. But Keys, like Ndegeocello, is out to mint new classics by mixing and matching '70s ...
Rapper Busta Rhymes has teamed up with Cleveland DJ, Mick Boogie, for a new digital mixtape honoring the late, great producer J. Dilla. Both Busta and Mick were excited when agreeing to collaborate for the project, titled Dillagence . The DJ was the ...