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J Dilla

Donuts Original Cover Edition

2LP | 2006 | CZ | Reissue (Stones Throw)

£ 28.96*

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Release: 2006 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Dillas last great gift to the people. Raw samples & loops, magically chopped & arranged to perfection in this blueprint for todays' beat-generation!

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Donuts

Tape | 2014 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

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Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition for the Cassette Store Day 2014!

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Donuts Smile Cover 2022 Repress Variant 2 / Thick Spine & Sticker Edition

2LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Stones Throw)

£ 32.27*

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Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2022 pressing. This pressing has a "nutrition facts"-sticker, a thick spine and comes with the run out grooves.
238067E1/E 10-94236 / STH2126-V1-A
238067E2/C 10-94236 / STH2126-V1-B
238067E3/B 10-94236 / STH2126-V1-C
238067E4/C 10-94236 / STH2126-V1-D

Also has the misspelling of "Anti-American Graffiti" as "Anti-American Graffifi" on Side C

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The Diary Vinyl Me, Please Edition

2LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

£ 38.06*

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Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Why you'll love it...
The Diary, the legendary lost album and instrumentals from J Dilla, released posthumously in 2016, is the VMP Hip-Hop Record of the Month for November 2022. It's here on exclusive 2LP Purple & Orange Marble vinyl, with lacquers cut by...

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Genius

LP | 2022 | US | Original

£ 26.47*

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Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Another collection of early cassette recordings from J Dilla feat. more raw unreleased Dilla originals. "genius" includes 14 remastered tracks showcasing Dilla's sonic growth in the late 90sâ€”including him rapping and singing, working out a track. Packaged in full color sleeve.

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Donuts by Jordan Ferguson

33 1/3

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From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying?

Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla’s own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist’s declining health as it is an example of what scholars call “late style,” placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.

152 pages.

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Donuts Digipack Edition

CD | 2006 | US | Reissue (Stones Throw)

£ 15.72*

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Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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State of the art digipack edition!

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The Shining

2LP | 2006 | EU | Reissue (BBE Music)

£ 33.10*

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Release: 2006 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Repressed 2023.
12 tracks feat. Busta Rhymes, Common, Pharoahe Monch, Madlib, Med, Dwele, Black Thought and others.

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Ruff Draft

2LP | 2007 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

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Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Official reissue from Dilla's 2003 EP with bonus tracks 'Wild' and 'Take Notice' feat. Guilty Simpson plus alternate intro and outro / instrumentals!

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Yancey Boys Instrumentals Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Edition

2LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Delicious Vinyl)

£ 33.10*

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Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Late arrival, coming next week.
Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Reissue. Color: Random. Limitation:For RSD Black Friday Delicious Vinyl presents this key material from Jay Dee’s output in a never before issued and not to be repeated random colored vinyl assortment. Shortly after Jay Dee’s younger brother Illa J’s solo debut was issued on Delicious Vinyl, the label and the artist knew the next step in honoring Jay Dee’s legacy was to issue the complete instrumentals from Yancey Boys as a stand-alone release. This mother lode of previously untouched (at the time) beats dates as far back as Jay Dee’s time working on the Pharcyde’s sophomore album, 1995’s Labcabincalifornia. As Delicious Vinyl owner Michael Ross explains, “From ‘95 through ’98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, tracks as good as anything he’d done, only they never got used.” Once these beats were used for Illa J’s Yancey Boys they were presented to the public on Yancey Boys Instrumentals.

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Release: 2022 / US

Genre: Hip Hop

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A collection of early beat creations from Detroit's J Dilla aka JAY DEE (circa 95-98). Originally recorded to cassette now remastered for a special vinyl release. The 928 LP includes 14 raw tracks in a magnificent jacket of artwork perfect for any collection.

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I Can’t Let You Go

7" | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Expansion)

£ 11.58*

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Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Produced by Barry White

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Anthem Feat. Frank N Dank / Trucks Black Vinyl Edition

12" | 2013 | US | Original (Pay Jay)

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Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Pay Jay Productions, Inc. was the company James Dewitt “J Dilla” Yancey founded in 2001 to house his production company and his publishing company. The Estate of James Yancey has revived Pay Jay as a functioning imprint, and is announcing its release of J Dilla's long lost vocal album, The Diary. The first single features "Anthem" b/w “Trucks” - two of the songs J Dilla recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 as he put the finishing touches on what was supposed to be an album featuring his raps over production by the likes of Madlib, Pete Rock, Nottz, House Shoes, Karriem Riggins and others.
These two tracks, however, were produced by Dilla himself and come straight from multi-track masters found on 2” tape shortly after Dilla’s passing in 2006. These songs have been mixed by engineer Dave Cooley, who worked extensively with Dilla during his years in Los Angeles. Using Dilla’s original demo mixes as his guide, Cooley attempted to finalize Dilla’s vision for these tracks, while keeping all of the elements that Dilla had in place in his original demos present. Rounding out this 12” is Dilla’s original mix of “Trucks,” discovered as a two-track demo mix. We’ve included this mix as it features an alternate version of Dilla’s vocals and a third verse not found on Dilla’s final sessions for this song.

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Donuts Smile Cover T-Shirt

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Available Sizes: S, M, L, 2XL

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Remember J Dilla's Donuts? Besides being one of the most influential instrumental journey of the 21st Century, the amazing album cover added an extra twist and perfectly rounded out the whole project. Here you are!

The J Dilla aka Jay Dee Donuts Tee's features include:

• rib crew neck
• Donuts overspray stencil-like artwork discharge-printed on front
• regular fit
• 90% cotton, 10% polyester ringspun single jersey, pre-shrunk, 4.9 oz

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Ruff Draft Beats / Instrumentals Full Color Sleeve Edition

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

£ 20.68*

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Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Previously available only in a plain sleeve, is given the proper treatment of a full color jacket.

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Donuts Smile Cover Edition 2020 Repress

2LP | 2006 | CA | Reissue (Stones Throw)

£ 28.96*

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Release: 2006 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2020 pressing. This pressing comes with the run out grooves:
199992E1/B A1
199992E2/B B1
199992E3/A C2
199992E4/A D2

Also has the misspelling of "Anti-American Graffiti" as "Anti-American Graffifi" on Side C

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Motor City

LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Nature Sounds)

£ 23.16*

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Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The late, great J Dilla is widely regarded as one of the greatest hiphop producers of all time. An innovator who pushed the genre in new sonic directions, the Detroit native born James Yancey crafted
timeless soundscapes for the likes of Slum Village, Busta Rhymes, Common, Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, and many more. Since his death in 2006, Dilla’s mother Maureen “Ma Dukes”
Yancey has worked tirelessly to further her son’s legacy, and her latest effort is the new posthumous album Motor City. Inspired by Dilla’s beloved hometown, Motor City is a collection of rare and
unreleased Jay Dee instrumentals, hand-selected and sequenced by Ma Dukes. Conceived as a “letter” to her son, Motor City is packaged in a limited-edition mailing envelope, complete with a handwritten
message from Ma Dukes to J Dilla inside. Both CD and vinyl formats also include access to an exclusive mix of the album by Dilla’s close friend J Rocc, a world-renown DJ and founder of the Beat Junkies.

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The Shining

CD | 2006 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

£ 8.27*

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Release: 2006 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

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Ruff Draft: Dilla's Mix

2LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Pay Jay Productions)

£ 24.57* £ 25.86 -5%

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Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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When Ruff Draft saw its initial release in 2003, J Dilla possessed production skills on par with anyone in hip-hop - technically and creatively. “At the top of his game,” says longtime friend and collaborator, Karriem Riggins. After years of building while modestly deferring to others of both greater and lesser notoriety, Dilla finally completed the first solo endeavor on his own label, entirely on his own terms. The significance of such an autonomous success often gets overlooked, and partly accounts for why Ruff Draft is one of the lesser-referenced entries in Dilla’s oeuvre. “It’s a mysterious little project,” says his mother, Maureen Yancey. “But out of his entire career, that was the happiest time.” Prior to recording the EP, Dilla found himself at a crossroads. Estranged from his label, MCA, and separated from the mother of his youngest daughter, frustration abounded both personally and professionally. Dilla spent parts of 2002 and 2003 working on an album for MCA that featured his rapping over contributions from other producers with whom he had connected and whose music he respected. At the time, he was known primarily for his beats, yet reviled for his MCing by most anyone not from his hometown of Detroit. The project was to be an intentional freak of the industry. The project would go on to spur his collaborative album with Madlib, Jaylib, and would first showcase the template that he would take to his greatest heights with 2006’s Donuts. The Stones Throw reissue of Ruff Draft from 2008 featured remixes of the songs from the album, done without Dillaís involvement. This version of the album takes Dillaís mixes of the album and restores his vision for the project. “Straight from the mothafuckin’ cassette,” as he phrased the sound he was going for on the EP’s intro.

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Yancey Boys Instrumentals

2LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Delicious Vinyl)

£ 33.10*

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Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Delicious Vinyl presents this key material from Jay Dee’s output in a never before issued and not to be repeated random colored vinyl assortment. Shortly after Jay Dee’s younger brother Illa J’s solo debut was issued on Delicious Vinyl, the label and the artist knew the next step in honoring Jay Dee’s legacy was to issue the complete instrumentals from Yancey Boys as a stand-alone release. This mother lode of previously untouched (at the time) beats dates as far back as Jay Dee’s time working on the Pharcyde’s sophomore album, 1995’s Labcabincalifornia . As Delicious Vinyl owner Michael Ross explains, “From ‘95 through ’98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, tracks as good as anything he’d done, only they never got used.” Once these beats were used for Illa J’s Yancey Boys they were presented to the public on Yancey Boys Instrumentals.

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Dilla Time: The Life And Afterlife Of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm By Dan Charnas - Paperback Edition

Macmillan

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Now as paperback edition.

"This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” —questlove

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.

He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the age of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar; memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play.

In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death; and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla’s own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. Dilla Time is a different kind of book about music, a visual experience with graphics that build those concepts step by step for fans and novices alike, teaching us to “see” and feel rhythm in a unique and enjoyable way.

Dilla’s beats, startling some people with their seeming “sloppiness,” were actually the work of a perfectionist almost spiritually devoted to his music. This is the story of the man and his machines, his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators. Culled from more than 150 interviews about one of the most important and influential musical figures of the past hundred years, Dilla Time is a book as delightfully detail-oriented and unique as J Dilla’s music itself.

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Motor City Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Vintage Vibez)

£ 36.41*

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Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Donut Shop

2x12" | 2010 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

£ 77.79*

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Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Slipmats are missing. Limited edition. Tiny wear.

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Jay Stay Paid

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Nature Sounds)

£ 27.30*

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Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Repressed / prod.by J Dilla / mixed by DJ Pete Rock / feat. Black Thought (The Roots), DOOM, M.O.P. and others / 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats and productions mixed and arranged by Soul Brother #1, DJ Pete Rock!

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Mochilla Presents Timeless: Suite For Ma Dukes Record Store Day 2021 Edition

2LP | 2010 | Reissue (Mochilla)

£ 24.03* £ 30.03 -20%

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Release: 2010 / Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Ruff Draft: The Dilla Mix Instrumentals

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Pay Jay)

£ 23.16*

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Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The producer’s own mixes – recently rediscovered – of his seminal EP, expanded with bonus tracks and now available in a special instrumental edition.

When Ruff Draft saw its initial release in 2003, J Dilla possessed production skills on par with anyone in hip-hop – technically and creatively. “At the top of his game,” says longtime friend and collaborator, Karriem Riggins. After years of building while modestly deferring to others of both greater and lesser notoriety, Dilla finally completed the first solo endeavor on his own label, entirely on his own terms. The significance of such an autonomous success often gets overlooked, and partly accounts for why Ruff Draft is one of the lesser-referenced entries in Dilla’s oeuvre. “It’s a mysterious little project,” says his mother, Maureen Yancey. “But out of his entire career, that was the happiest time.”
Prior to recording the EP, Dilla found himself at a crossroads. Estranged from his label, MCA, and separated from the mother of his youngest daughter, frustration abounded both personally and professionally. Dilla spent parts of 2002 and 2003 working on an album for MCA that featured his rapping over contributions from other producers with whom he had connected and whose music he respected. At the time, he was known primarily for his beats, yet reviled for his MCing by most anyone not from his hometown of Detroit. The project was to be an intentional freak of the industry.
The project would go on to spur his collaborative album with Madlib, Jaylib, and would first showcase the template that he would take to his greatest heights with 2006’s Donuts. The Stones Throw reissue of Ruff Draft from 2008 featured remixes of the songs from the album, done without Dilla’s involvement. This version of the album takes Dilla’s recently discovered mixes of the album and restores his vision for the project.

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J Dilla

Motor City

CD | 2017 | US | Original (Nature Sounds)

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Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The late, great J Dilla is widely regarded as one of the greatest Hip Hop producers of all time. An innovator who pushed the genre in new sonic directions, the Detroit native born James Yancey crafted timeless soundscapes for the likes of Slum Village, Busta Rhymes, Common, Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, and many more. Since his death in 2006, Dilla's mother Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey has worked tirelessly to further her son's legacy, and her latest effort is the new posthumous album “Motor City”. Inspired by Dilla's beloved hometown, “Motor City” is a collection of rare and unreleased Jay Dee instrumentals, hand-selected and sequenced by Ma Dukes. Conceived as a "letter" to her son, “Motor City” is packaged in a limited-edition mailing envelope, complete with a handwritten message from Ma Dukes to J Dilla inside. Both CD and vinyl formats also include access to an exclusive mix of the album by Dilla's close friend J Rocc, a world-renown DJ and founder of the Beat Junkies.

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Jay Love Japan

CD | 2016 | US | Original (Vintage Vibez)

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Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Originally announced before J Dilla’s death in 2006, "Jay Love Japan" was finally released in ’07, giving fans of the revered hip-hop producer (aka Jay Dee, born James Yancey) another sampling of his emotive and inventive aesthetic. Much of the posthumous album is steeped in Dilla’s vintage soul sound, as best exemplified by the cinematic “Can’t You See,” making it an intriguing addition to his impressive but tragically brief discography.

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Donuts Cover T-Shirt

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The J Dilla aka Jay Dee Donuts Cover Tee's features include:

• rib crew neck
• Jeff Jank's Donuts Cover artwork printed on front
• relaxed fit
• 90% cotton, 10% polyester single jersey, 4.9 oz

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