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- Biography
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Early life
Yancey grew up in Detroit, Michigan. The family lived in a house on the northeast corner of McDougall and Nevada, on the east side of Detroit. Yancey's parents had musical backgrounds; his mother, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, is a former opera singer and his father, Beverly Dewitt Yancey, was a jazz bassist, and performed Globetrotters half-time shows for several years.Yancey's mother said that he could "match pitch perfect harmony" before he learned how to speak. Along with a range of other mu...
Early career
In 1992, Yancey met the Detroit musician Amp Fiddler, who let him use his Akai MPC, a music workstation, which he quickly mastered. Fiddler, while playing keyboards with Funkadelic on the 1994 Lollapalooza tour, met Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, the group was also in the lineup. Fiddler introduced Q-Tip to Yancey, who gave Q-Tip a Slum Village demo tape. In 1995, Yancey and MC Phat Kat formed 1st Down and became the first Detroit hip hop group to sign with a major label (Payday Records). The...
Performing career
2000 marked the major label debut of Slum Village with Fantastic, Vol. 2, creating a new following for Yancey as a producer and an MC. He was also a founding member of the production collective known as The Soulquarians (along with Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, D'Angelo and James Poyser amongst others) which earned him more recognition. He later worked with Erykah Badu, Poe, Talib Kweli, and Common—contributing heavily to the latter's critically acclaimed breakthrough album, Like Water for Choc...
Before Yancey, most popular music had used one of two rhythmic "feels": straight and swung, meaning that music was played in even or uneven pulses. According to the journalist and university professor Dan Charnas, Yancey juxtaposed both styles, creating "a new, pleasurable, orienting rhythmic friction and new time-feel". Yancey used an Akai MPC3000...
At the time of his death, Yancey had several projects planned for future completion and release. According to founding Slum Village member T3 in an interview in March 2015, Yancey had about 150 unreleased beats, some of which featured on Slum Village's album entitled Yes!, released June 16, 2015. The Shining was "75% completed when Dilla died" and ...
Yancey was survived by two daughters. In May 2006, Yancey's mother announced the creation of the J Dilla Foundation, which works to cure people affected by lupus.
Dan Charnas (2022). Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm. MCD Publishers. ISBN 978-0-374-13994-0.Russonello, Giovanni (February 7, 2013). "Why J Dilla May Be Jazz's Latest Great Innovator". NPR Music.Official sites 1. J Dilla– official site 2. J Dilla Foundation Resources 1. J Dilla / Jaylib / Slum Village / The Ummah / The Soulquarians / 1st Down discographies at Discogs 2. J Dilla discography at Stones Throw Records Misc. 1. How J Dilla humanized his MPC3000– Vox Earworm episode on YouTube, December 6, 2017
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Jay Dee a.k.a. King Dilla by J Dilla | (FULL ALBUM)
The mark that the late producer J Dilla left upon hip-hop during the 90s and early-to-mid 00s is undeniable. His work with De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, The Pharcyde, and of course Slum Village long been cemented his prominence in the annals of hip-hop history.
19 de mai. de 2017 · Jay Dee aka King Dilla by J Dilla released in 2017. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
