Today, February 7th, is James Dewitt Yancey’s Birthday. In remembrance, one of Dilla’s close friends and collaborators, Karriem Riggins, sat down at Iron Works Studios in Eagle Rock to touch on his friend’s legacy, and bang out a tune in his honor. PB Wolf and J Rocc also add their two cents in the beginning of the video.
Watch “J Dilla The Greatest” from Karriem’s Stones Throw debut, “Alone Together.”
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Karriem Riggins drops his tribute to Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, frontman and founder of the legendary, Ohio Players, who recently passed away.
Karriem states: “My idea was to chop a song that is so important to hip hop and also pay homage to one of the funkiest groups from one of the funkiest states. Ohio Players’ music will forever be relevant! RIP Sugarfoot.”
For fans in Canada, Karriem will be DJing on February 22nd in Toronto and February 23rd in Montreal.
Directors Tuomas Vauhkonen and Jeremias Nieminen were winners of the Stones Throw video content last year, with their incredible clip for J Dilla’s “Last Donut of the Night.” They recently finished the official music video for “Round The Outside” from Karriem Riggins’ recently released album “Alone Together.”
Check out the music video from Karriem Riggins’ “Alone Together” album, which is out now. The video is for the track “Summer Madness” (also incorporating a piece of “Matador“) and is directed by Donovan Glover and Gerard Victor.
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Karriem Riggins’ 34-track instrumental hip hop album “Alone Together” is now officially available on CD, LP and digital outlets. His name, synonymous in both jazz and hip hop worlds, currently plays drums for Diana Krall, while working with many other jazz legends, and producing for the likes of The Roots, Erykah Badu, Common, J Dilla, Slum Village and many others.
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