Seriously, What's the Fascination With Dilla About?
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you're obviously new to this here.... so let me speed you up on the last 6 + years of my on here and
1. I'm a shock poster, if you haven't noticed i make a lot of sensationalized threads, that usually do big numbers...i've been doing it for years...i'm quite good at it.
2. I made the thread, like 3 years ago... just to rile up J Dilla stans...who clearly knew that this shyt was happening, and admitted to it.... the previous post is the actual truth behind the strange obsession with him. there was a considerable fanbase behind Dilla, but it's the whole anti-mainstream hipsters who really made that shyt stereotypical of a "backpacker" and brought a negative light to even liking J Dilla.
3. since you're so emotionally vested in this topic.. my threads would've struck a nerve with you..and gave me another plat thread ( the entire point of people like me posting to begin with)
4. the number before 5.
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da fuk is this? sounds like he ripped a sample from 1976 or something, dont even sound like he made it
yseJ
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breh, i made this same thread onlike 3 years ago cause of the mass influx of people who started dikkriding the shyt out of him after he died...and made the entire J Dilla fanbase look corny as fukk.
dude was a great producer, but you had fakkit ass hipsters who acted like the nikka was god AFTER he was already did, and the shyt just became so trendy among the " i don't listen to mainstream hip hop, so i'm better than you" types it caused this obsession with his shyt... you had nikkas who weren't even alive when any of that Pharcyde shyt came out, talking bout how " J Dilla saved their life" when they only found out who he was after he was already dead.
yea thats kinda like I feel. dilla wasnt even appreciated like that before death. he was slightly better than battlecat status in terms of popularity. and that aint a diss, cuz battlecat is dope but most of these dudes barely even knew who he was.
I aint hear no one praising dillas work on internet before he died putting him in top 10, citing de la, busta or pharcyde work, which was really dope btw.
96-2000 dilla was arguably his strongest, although his beats werent as personalized and his style wasnt quite formed yet
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classicmaterial
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The honest truth (and I'm a fan of Dilla)........it's cause he's dead
Seems to me like a lot of his fans now were never aware of his work with The Ummah, or how he made beats on Busta Rhymes albums. He basically got this huge following after Donuts and after he died
I remember hearing the fukk the Police 12" and buying the Welcome 2 Detroit album....people thought when I said I was listening to Jay Dee that I was talking about Jermaine Dupri
Fast forward like 6 years later and everyone is calling Dilla the greatest producer
Seems to me like a lot of his fans now were never aware of his work with The Ummah, or how he made beats on Busta Rhymes albums. He basically got this huge following after Donuts and after he died
I remember hearing the fukk the Police 12" and buying the Welcome 2 Detroit album....people thought when I said I was listening to Jay Dee that I was talking about Jermaine Dupri
Fast forward like 6 years later and everyone is calling Dilla the greatest producer
I respect this coming from a real Dilla fan. Btw the track The Ummah did for Janet Jack with the Joni Mitchell sample was
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Judging from the RJD2 tracks I heard in this thread that nikka sound like he makes Reggaeton Church Meditational Ambient Music
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My favorite RJD2 beat...
Everything else he's done just sounds a little, uh, weird for lack of a better word
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this is pretty much what happened
he was gaining some traction with the whole RTB/Adult Swim type crowd with the success of the Jaylib album in that whole wave which brought MF Doom to the forefront around the time Madvillainy came out, but after he died suddenly everyone was a fan
as someone who produces myself I've brought this up before, see here:
http://www.the-coli.com/864022-post22.html
but Dilla is a guy who you have to really know what goes into production to develop a great appreciation for.
He's right up there with Madlib and Pete Rock as my favorites ever. Dude had unlimited versatility as a producer. He remade the entire Main Ingredient album and "improved it" for practice.
