Today would have been the 37th birthday of legendary producer James “J Dilla” Yancy. To celebrate the life of the amazing producer, SOHH has a brief essay by none other than Busta Rhymes, who has previously stated that every solo Busta album featured some contribution from the Detroit beatmaker, although not always credited. Busta quite simply tells SOHH, “Dilla is the greatest producer that I’ve ever met personally.”
Since his untimely passing in 2006, Dilla’s recorded output has barely slowed, as the prolific producer left a lot of material unreleased. One of the more recent additions to the catalog is Jaylib’s “Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme),” a collaboration with Madlib from the pair’s unreleased second album that Stones Throw let into the world last month.
Try as others might, there’s still no one who can do the ’80s electro-boogie sound quite like DāM-FunK. So while some might start to grumble about his sound being one-dimensional, I don’t think anyone really wants him switching over to reggaeton either. So stop your kvetching and dig Mr. Funk’s “clubdub” or Nite Jewel’s “It Goes Through Your Head.” If this doesn’t get you wiggling, then you probably are on too many (or not enough) meds.
Nite Jewel – “It Goes Through Your Head” (DāM-FunK Clubdub)
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