Your favorite Dilla beat?

[Biblical Goon]

Man, how you gonna remix your own song and it’s better than the original? The Light is a classic too but the remix is

the way he flipped this sample still blows my mind.

You would have thought he sampled the bass line but he just took that small guitar lick at 1:28 and recreated the bass line to sound similar, even filtered it so it sounded muffled as if he just chopped and filtered it. Like how bro?

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

 

[Cape Town JHB]

The one that convinced me he was a musical genius, transcending hip hop, and reaching James Brown, Fela Kuti other worldiness was this :

 

[old pig]

 

[Cape Town JHB]

Also he flipped a Herbie Hancock classic.. That I literally listen to everyday for my daily run for years

 

[TEH]

 

[Vandelay]

Man, I'm not up Jay Dee like I should be...imma say "Running".

 

[tuckgod]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

and DOOM spit over the beat as well...

 

[Heafcliffe]

Man, I'm not up Jay Dee like I should be...imma say "Running".

Too many to name. Slum Village Fantastic 2 is simply .

The layering and depth of the beats is ethereal.

Wife and I are hosting an outdoor event soon and will play a cache of Dilla beats.

 

[7evens]

 

[Apprentice]

 

[Dad]

 

[tuckgod]

 

[neph27]

Don't cry