The World Misses Jay Dee
posted on Feb 16, 2006De La Soul - Thru Ya City (Link Expired)
Jay Dee passed away on Friday February 10 and, to show you the emotional disconnect that running a publication creates, I was shortly thereafter thinking about what we should do for a proper tribute.
Earlier this month, on my birthday February 2 (yes, a lost soulquarian), my uncle gave a kidney to his 22 year old daughter – my only younger cousin. As a family we spent months hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. So far we’ve been lucky as both of them are recovering well.
Hip-hop fans had a long time with the news of Jay Dee’s kidney problems hanging over us. And we hoped for the best for him too. ?uestlove sums up that hope when he writes on his blog “I admit I thought he was going to get better simply because he was doing the very thing that he loved the most in life…..making beats.”
Most of us probably didn’t realize until we heard the news that the potential loss would feel like losing a relative. Or that it would be possible that we could come together afterwards and mourn like a family.
Alexander Mendes may have got too caught up when he said “Over the weekend, I’ve gotten the feeling that hiphop has unified and sort of aligned itself after the sudden death of James Yancey aka Jay Dee aka J Dilla, Producer extraordinaire on Friday Feb. 10th 2006” But it can’t be denied that on the internet, in the days that followed Dilla’s passing, a vast community unified to remember and honor a master whose music was part of our shared history.
Here at Oh Word we figured that we would post a bunch of our favorite Jay Dee songs with commentary on why we loved them but soon noticed many of the same songs appearing on one blog or another. Big batches of songs started appearing in great tributes at Vinyl Addicts and Mental Combat. Radio3030 served a great need by streaming Jay-Dee selections for days. There appeared hundreds of blog posts and thousands upon thousands of posts at message boards, myspace, etc. At philaflava a 2 cd tribute mix posted in the middle of a thread had to be re-upped 3 times because the link kept expiring.
This was all within the first few days, all before Yahoo had given a news headline to Dilla on their front page. So many people had taken the initiative to share their memories of the man and ten plus years of great music. It made us change our mind about what we would do to honor Jay Dee. I wanted people to see all in one place how many people had favorite songs they felt the need to post, how many were moved to powerful words, so I started visiting many tribute posts and compiling a list of what I found.
We’re adding our own contribution to the mix with two great Dilla tracks that we didn’t see elsewhere. Check the top of the post for audio for the underrated jams De La Soul – Thru Ya City and Tribe Called Quest – Word Play.
And please consider the following (from the Stones Throw homepage):
Mrs. Yancey relocated to Los Angeles in order to care for her son J Dilla during his lengthy illness. On behalf of Mrs. Yancey we ask that in lieu of flowers, any heartfelt donations be made payable and sent to a fund which has been established in her name:Made Payable to Mrs. Maureen Yancey
Donations can be mailed to:
Maureen Yancey
132 N. Sycamore Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036Bank Wires can be sent to:
Wells Fargo Bank of Los Angeles, CA
Routing Number: 122000247
Account Number: 6043250676
1-800-869-3557Please note that donations made to Mrs. Yancey are not considered a charitable deduction. This will be considered a gift of help.
HIGH PRAISE
“There were plenty of hip-hop fans who knew Dilla’s work and recognized his talent, but Jay Dee wielded a musical influence and a creative reach that, to this point, eclipse those of better-known producers like Scott Storch, Just Blaze, The Neptunes, and, perhaps even Kanye West.”
“The man assembled rich soundscapes. And I don’t mean “rich” like busy, or rich like blaring. I mean rich like witty; like emotional; like compelling. A Dilla beat was soulful, and it didn’t need horns or choirs to tell you so. It was gritty and heartfelt, a little off in the best sort of way, and you could always hear that precision musicianship – in the stiff drums, the playful bass lines, the somber samples.”
“Despite these consistent traits, though, Jay Dee’s beats were varied, and he proved to be a producer in full. From the infectious energy of S Villa’s “Raise It Up” to the lazy meandering of “Nag Champa” from Common; or the staccato breaks and haunting horn loop of Tribe’s “Start It Up” to Slum’s electronic defiance on “Who We Are,” Dilla was always experimenting. This ability to create music for all moods helped to distinguish him from his peers, many of whom were limited in their range and sadly adherent to only a few formulas. The experimentation was not always a success – plenty of Tribe fans still revile The Love Movement given the relative whimper with which the group left us; Busta never sounds quite right over a Dilla beat – but the willingness to try was not only engaging, but worthy of praise. If people want to dick ride Kanye West, lauding him for his “ambitious” Late Registration, then they should also be praising Dilla for trying to help Pharcyde follow up Bizarre Ride; for authoring the De La song that may have surpassed anything Prince Paul ever made when seeking the definitive De La track; for creating beats so textured that ?uestlove and other technical masters couldn’t help but fawn in appreciation.”
“It’s not that Dilla wanted his tracks to be ignored but their brilliance were precisely in how subtle they were. Jay Dee filtered most of his samples, sponging over obvious melodic loops or snippets, and instead, left you with impressions and moods, or as Hua noted, “textures and ambiance.” If all this sounds rather vague that’s exactly the point: Dilla’s tracks had a kind of vagueness to them: you couldn’t always pinpoint where the “hook” was. Instead, it’s the “feel” of the beat that beckoned you in, wrapped you in its warmth (and Dilla’s beats all exuded warmth), and generally, left you feeling good.”
“fall in love” and “two can win” make me genuinely euphoric, “stakes is high” rouses my 15 year old radical self, “stressed out” transports me to my darkest days in boarding school, “reminisce” is, quite simply, my shit, and “last donut” brings tears to my eyes. God bless.
?uestLove’s Myspace Blog – Favorite songs
?uestlove’s 50 favorite Dilla moments
Myspace Blog – Dilla’s funeral
A very candid post from ?uest on attending Dilla’s funeral
“Genius moves stealthily”
Posted email essay from Sam Valenti
Stylus
Jay Dee: A Hip-Hop Craftsman by David Drake from So Many Shrimp
“He got hated on for a number of things for which he wasn’t responsible, including the ‘decline’ of Tribe and a corny neo-soul aesthetic that stripped the fun and/or edge from rap music in favor of a smoothed out middle ground, a pseudo-spiritual yuppie/boho aesthetic that eschewed anything determinedly populist. In short, he was to blame for making rap ‘respectable.’ The problem with this sort of faux-populist interpretation of Dilla’s work is that it ignores the music, and Jay Dee’s beats were anything but middle-of-the-road; they were creative and personal, inspiring, life affirming, unique. And while some folks that gravitated towards his distinct style may have enforced a codified, classist conformity, Dilla himself was consistently upending expectations. Critics got caught up in politics; he was hated on for not being true school like Pete Rock, and got slept on for being too much like Pete Rock, for not quantizing his snare-claps, for not making hits.
For all the talk of his scene’s insularity, his ear was incredibly ‘pop’ and his sonic palette broad. He dropped tracks like “Stakes Is High,” with rugged Havoc-style production, smooth R&B with D’Angelo, and reinvented Q-Tip to such a degree that folks would call Tip’s Amplified a ‘jiggy’ album, an up-tempo dance release that Puffy could have produced. Jay Dee could do space-age bump, as on Slum Village’s “Raise It Up.” And there was Pharcyde’s “Running,” which with a few minor melodic tweaks was transformed into epic pop for Mya’s “Fallen.” And even though he always remained relatively underground, his influence on the world of hip-hop and R&B is unmistakable; with D’Angelo he would influence the whole of R&B, from Rodney Jerkins rhythmically jagged robo-funk to the lush sounds of neo-soul. And his indie peers, too, would remain influenced by his refined Detroit sound. But Dilla was not underground for lack of skill; he was underground because he knew the sound he wanted and it wasn’t in the clubs or on the streets. It was personal. ”
“A great syncopator”
“With Jay Dee’s death last week, Detroit lost one of the great syncopators it had produced in a very long time. A truly original sound. The father of that hard, soulful boom-bap that became his trademark. In fact, it is possible to say that not since Paul Humphrey had a single artist contributed so much to the rythmic identity of Motor City.”
Pop Matters – Future Funk Soldier: Looking Back on Jay Dee by Looking Forward – newly added to list on 2/16/2005
“Dilla arrived at a critical time for hip-hop when sampling and its legal restrictions had come to a head, requiring a mandatory shift in music production. His emphasis on heavily syncopated rhythms and affected sampling offered a far more minimal yet equally funky alternative to the Silver Age school of drum loops and layered samples. It didn’t hurt, too, that he also used far fewer samples, which made for a smaller legal headache. Though many of his techniques—such as filtering and compressing samples, and incorporating live instruments—had been innovated by other producers, Dilla arranged them in a new fashion and took them to a logical extreme. Where horns once blared and scratch choruses proclaimed, blowing the listener back, Dilla laid back in the cut and pulled the listener in. He exercised discretion more than boldness, a thump in the chest instead of chest thumping. In a sense, he helped bridge hip-hop’s transition from Pete Rock, Prince Paul and Premier to Pharrell and Timbaland.”
Spliff Huxtable – newly added to list on 2/16/2005
“The key here is that while under a production microscope Dilla’s sloppy drum programming and slightly off samples are “loose”, they’re there for a reason, because of the feeling. What Jay Dee brought to the game was, like Rza before him, was a innate rhythym that broke free of the overly quantized 4/4 sound of b-grade hip-hop. This album shows that off in spades with different time signatures, synths, samples and those claps.
I hope that the immitators of his style can take the ideas he had and instead of copying them, expand upon them and keep that Detroit bump going long into the 21st century.”
THE MUSIC (SPEAKS FOR ITSELF)
Vinyl Addicts
1st down – A day with the homiez
1st down – Front street
1st down- No place to go
1st down – Front street (remix)
1st down – It don’t get no liver than this
Da Enna C – Now – Busta Rhymes – “Woo-hah! (got you all in check) (Jay Dee bounce mix)” – Keith Murray – “The rhyme (the Slum Village street remix)” – A Tribe Called Quest – “Mardi Gras at midnight” – Natives From Da Undaground – “Pack da house” – Natives From Da Undaground – “Brothas juss don’t know”
De La Soul – Stakes Is High Remix
Artifacts – The Ultimate (Remix)
Masta Ace – Sittin on Chrome (Remix)
Das EFX – Microphone Master (Remix)
Jay Dee – Fuck the Police
“Now this took me ages to select & organise, so enjoy. And go buy his music like I did. Ha.
All 45 tracks are included randomly within the 3 Volumes.
95% of the files are 192kbps or over. Only 1 file is 128kbps.”
1. I Believe In You (Jaylib remix)-Amp Fiddler
2. Ultimate (Jay Dee remix)-Artifacts
3. One-4-Teen (Jay Dee remix)-Bahamadia
4. Woo Hah!!! (Jay-Dee remix)-Busta Rhymes
5. The Movement-Common
6. Come Close (Jay Dee remix)-Common f. Erykah Badu, Pharell, & Q-Tip
7. In The Light (Jay Dee remix)-Common ft Erykah Badu
8. Game Over-Dabrye ft. Jay Dee & Phat Kat
9. Microphone Master (Jay Dee remix)-Das Efx & Mobb Deep
10. Stakes Is High (Jay Dee remix)-De La Soul
11. Love Junkee (J Dilla Remix)-DJ Cam
12. You Used To Love Me (Ummah remix)-Faith Evans
13. Floetic (Jay Dee remix)-Floetry Ft. CL Smooth
14. As Serious As Your Life (Jay Dee remix)-Four Tet ft. Guilty Simpson
15. Let’s Go (produced by J. Dilla) -Frank N Dank
16. Okay (produced by J. Dilla)-Frank N Dank
17. Down Here on The Ground ft. Dianna Reeves-Grant Green + The Ummah
18. Oblighetto (Brother Jack McDuff) -J Dilla
19. Love (Thing Of The Past)-Jay Dee ft. Frank ‘n Dank
20. Crushin (Yeeaaah)-Jay Dee
21. Fuck The Police-Jay Dee
22. Think Twice-Jay Dee ft. Dwele The 128kbps culprit
23. The Message-Jaylib
24. The Rhyme (Slum Village Remix)-Keith Murray
25. Love ft. J. Dilla-Lawless Element
26. Sittin’ On Chrome (Jay Dee remix)-Masta Ace
27. Ascension (Jay Dee remix)-Maxwell
28. One Time (produced by Jay Dee)-Moka Only
29. Secret of the Sands (Jay Dee Remix)-Mood
30. Saturday Night (Jay Dee Remix)-Mos Def
31. Find A Way (Jay Dee Remix)-Nine Yards
32. Niggaz Know-Pete Rock ft Jay Dee
33. Y? (Be Like That) (Jay Dee Remix)-The Pharcyde
34. She Said (Jay Dee Remix)-The Pharcyde
35. Shotgun (Jay Dee remix)-Platinum Pied Pipers
36. Act Like You Know-Platinum Pied Pipers ft. Jay Dee
37. Leisure Rules (produced Jay Dee) -Prozack Turner
38. Life Goes On (produced by Jay Dee)-Royce 5’9”
39. Thrilla-Sa-Ra Creative Partners
40. Reunion-Slum Village ft. J Dilla
41. Once Upon A Time-Slum Village Ft. Pete Rock
42. Dollar (produced by Jay Dilla)-Spacek
43. Eve (Jay Dee remix)-Spacek
44. Who Smoked Sunshine (produced by Jay Dee)-T-Love
45. Fanatic (J Dilla Remix)-Vivian Green
I forgot to include this awesome remix.
46. Runnin’ (remix by Jay Dee)-The Pharcyde 6MBs
- MP3s: JAY DEE – Collection Vol 1 80MBs
- MP3s: JAY DEE – Collection Vol 2 84MBs
- MP3s: JAY DEE – Collection Vol 3 77MBs
- MP3: JAY DEE – Radio interview from 2005 43MBs
Stones Throw Jukebox
Jay Dee – Airworks
- A Tribe Called Quest, “1nce Again”
- De La Soul, “Stakes Is High”
- Common, “The Movement”
- Pharcyde, “Runnin’”
- Busta Rhymes, “Show Me What You Got”
- The Roots, “Dynamite”
- Jaylib, “Starz”
- Slum Village, “Eyes Up”
- Slum Village, “Conant Gardens”
- Slum Village, “Fall in Love”
- Jay Dee, “Time – The Donut of the Heart”
- Jay Dee, “Signs”
- Jay Dee, “Grannie”
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/001505.html
“Our DJ Emskee put together two hourlong mixes of music from the great J Dilla.”
Underground Railroad J Dilla Tribute – Hour 1 mp3, 24MB
Underground Railroad J Dilla Tribute – Hour 2 mp3, 24MB
(sorry, no playlist)
http://hreggvidsson.blogspot.com/2006/02/jay-dee-1974-2006.html
Jaylib – The Red
http://spaces.msn.com/dave87sk/Blog/cns!8BAF5E78F73B29F4!311.entry
Stakes is High
Fall In Love
Stressed Out
http://pardonmyfreedom.blogspot.com/2006/02/rip.html
J-Dilla “Workinonit”
http://brokebboys.blogspot.com/2006/02/rip-jay-dilla.html
Slum Village-Players Download
Jay Dee-Think Twice Download
J-88-Keep On It Download
Crustation-Purple (Jay Dee Remix) Download
Das Efx-Microphone Master (Jay Dee Remix) Download
Masta Ace-Sitting On Chrome (The Ummah Remix) Download
Open World – Steve Spacek – Spaceshift (prod by J Dilla)
– Jaylib – McNasty Filth
– Slum Village – Raize It Up
http://betakerosene.blogspot.com/2006/02/my-tribute-to-dilla.html
A Tribe Called Quest – Get A Hold/1nce Again feat. Tammy Lucas/Stressed Out feat. Mary J. Blige/Find A Way/Da Booty (easy top 5)Jaylib – The Red/Raw Shit feat. Talib Kweli/Starz
De La Soul – Stakes Is High/Verbal Clap/Much More
Common – Doinit/The Light/Questions feat. Mos Def/Nag Champa/Love Is… (Had to pick one from BE. I could upload so much more, but this is a good enough top 5, I’d say. Like Water For Chocolate is easily my favorite album of Common’s, especially due to the production)
The Roots – Dynamite!
Bush Babees – Three MCs feat. Q-Tip
Talib Kweli – Where Do We Go feat. Res/Stand To The Side feat. Novel & Vinia Mojica
MED – Push/So Real
Oh No – Move feat. Roc C
Spacek – Dollar
Big Tone – Party Crasher (from DJ Mekalek’s Killer Tape Part III; don’t mind the mixing near the end, just focus on the song itself…a total sleeper!)
And, of course, my all-time favorite Jay Dee beat…
The Pharcyde – Runnin’
http://soul-sides.com/2006/02/jay-dee-rip.html
Pharcyde: She Said (remix)
From 12” (Delicious Vinyl, 1996)
A Tribe Called Quest: Busta’s Lament
From The Love Movement (Jive, 1998)
Slum Village: Fall In Love
From Fantastic Vol 2. (Goodvibe, 2000)
Jay Dee: Fuck the Police
From 12” (Up Above, 2001)
Jay Dee: Last Donut of the Night
From Donuts (Stonesthrow, 2006)
So Much Silence
De La Soul | Stakes is High (remix by Jay Dee)
From Itzsoweezee 12” single; De La, Mos Def and Truth Enola on one track.
The Pharcyde | Y? (Be Like That) (Jay Dee remix)
From Drop 12” single; a great example of Jay Dee keeping the flavor of the original but coloring it with a stuttering bass line and more pronounced backing vocals.
The Pharcyde | Runnin’ (Jay Dee Remix)
From Drop 12” single; a cooled-out mix of one of my favorite Pharcyde tracks.
- Come Get It—Welcome 2 Detroit (Instrumental)
- (not) Featuring Phat Kat—” . . . ” (2005)
from Q Tip’s Amplified:
- Wait Up (1999)
and from Common’s Like Water for Chocolate:
- Thelonius (feat. Slum Village & Jay Dee) (2000)
http://www.milkaudio.com/web/guest_venom.php
real audio mix
01. jay dee – intro/let’s take it back – ruff draft e.p. – mummy/groove attack records
02. slum village – players (instrumental) – goodvibe recordings
03. de la soul – takes is high (instrumental) – tommy boy
04. a tribe called quest – find a way – the love movement – jive recordings
05. slum village – fan-tas-tic (instrumental) – fan-tas-tic vol. 1 – unreleased
06. busta rhymes – turn me up some – it ain’t safe no more – j records
07. jay dee – flyyy – the official jay dee instrumental series vol. 1 – bling 47 recordings
08. the roots – dynamite – things fall apart – mca records
09. slum village – one (instrumental) – barak recordings
10. jay dee – pause (instrumental) – b.b.e.
11. que-d – cash flow (instrumental) – quite delicious e.p. – fat beats
12. q-tip – let’s ride – amplified – arista recordings
13. phat kat – don’t nobody care about us (instrumental) – dedication to the suckers e.p. – house shoes recordings
14. common – soul power – electric circus – mca recordings
15. jay dee – this is it – the instrumentals – music station recordings
16. jay dee – doo doo – the official instrumental series vol. 2: vintage jay dee of the ummah – bling 47 recordings
17. busta rhymes – woo haa! (got you all in check) (jay dee bounce remix instrumental) – east west
18. – j-88 – look of love (jay dee remix) – groove attack
19. frank ‘n’ dank – love : a thing of the past (instrumental) – macnasty recordings
20. jay dee feat. frank ‘n’ dank – move – up above
21. jay dee feat. phat kat – track (instrumental) – b.b.e./rawkus
22. lucy pearl – without you (jay dee remix) – virgin
23. slum village – raise it up (instrumental) – wordplay
24. jay dee – the $ ruff draft e.p. – mummy/groove attack records
http://soundiscriminal.blogspot.com/2006/02/always-find-way.html
Download: Jay Dee “Ritmo Suave Bossa Nova”
http://laythefoundations.com/ltf.html
Jaylib – The Red
http://music.for-robots.com/archives/001346.html
Slum Village – Fall In Love
http://music.for-robots.com/archives/001338.html
DJ Cam – Love Junkee (J Dilla Remix)
http://degrell.blogspot.com/2006/02/rip-jay-dee.html
Slum Village – Players
http://spaces.msn.com/yermam/Blog/cns!3A7FA58C279083A7!1574.entry
Jaylib – The Red (mp3)
Jay Dee – Come Get It (mp3)
Q-Tip – Breathe & Stop (produced by Jay Dee) (mp3)
Common – The Light (produced by Jay Dee) (mp3)
Kjartanelli Industries
Jay Dee – Don’t Cry
Call Me Mickey
MP3: “Jay Dee – Think Twice Feat Dwele”
MP3: “Slum Village – Raise It Up”
MP3: “Slum Village – Keep It On Pt 1”
MP3: “Jaylib – The Message”
MP3: “A Tribe Called Quest – Find A Way”
http://streetsonbeats.blogspot.com/2006/02/rip-j-dilla.html
Slum Village – I Don’t Know
Get Hype
Jay Dilla – The Diff’rence
http://mymarkup.net/blog/archives/009158.html
Slum Village – Reunion
http://solelife.blogspot.com/2006/02/jay-dee-dedication-part-1.html
Peep———> De La Soul- Stakes Is High
Peep———> J-88- The Look of Love (Jay Dee remix)
Peep———> Keith Murray- The Rhyme (Slum Village remix)
http://solelife.blogspot.com/2006/02/jay-dee-dedication-part-2.html
Peep———> Que D f/ Jay Dee- Rock Box
Peep———> De La Soul f/ Yummy- Much More
Peep———> Jay Dee f/ Phat Kat- Track
Bruto e Feio
Podcast Mix
Jay Dee – Brazilian Groove
Jingle Bruto e Feio
Kid Koala – Stompin at le savoy
Blockhead – Serenade
Jazzmatazz – No time to play
Common – The Light – Produzido por Jay Dee
Wöyza – Espacio
Kooltuga – Houve Homens de Talento
Raze – Midnight
Dangerdoom c/ Ghostface – The Mask
Everyday Thoughts
podcast
tracks:
1. de la soul – much more
2. de la soul – stakes is high
3. a tribe called quest – find a way
4. common – come close (remix)
5. j-88 – the look of love pt 1
6. slum village – i don’t know
7. slum village – 2u4u
8. t-love – when you’re older
9. pharcyde – drop (inst)
10. pharcyde – runnin’ (remix)
11. the roots – dynamite
12. busta rhymes – woo-hah (jay-dee other shit remix)
13. steve spacek – dollar
14. dabrye ft jaydee & phat kat – game over
15. jaylib ft quasimoto – react
16. jaylib – raw addict
17. oh no ft j dilla & roc c – move pt 2
18. four tet – as serious as your life (jay dee rmx ft guilty simpson)
19. slum village – fall’n’love
Razorblade Runner
Jay Dee – Nothing Like This
http://toddkelley.net/archives/2006/02/producer_jay_de.php
A nice mix of 29 Dilla tracks
http://obifromsouthlondon.blogspot.com/2006/02/jaydee-1974-2006.html
Links to:
realaudio d/l: jaylib vs. jrocc champion sound mix – 7.1 mb (stones throw 30mins). wikid instrumental mix of madlib and jaydee joints. click here if first link aint working ;)
mp3 d/l:Wale Oyejide (feat. JayDee) – Theres a war going on. Afro Beats singer and slum village Rhymer. heavy.
http://ghettomusic.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-dr-said.html
J-Dilla – Anti-American Graffiti
5 part interview
http://hardlyart.blogspot.com/2006/02/aint-sayin-nuthin.html
The Pharcyde – “Somethin’ That Means Somethin’”
A Tribe Called Quest – “His Name is Mutty Ranks”
Phat Kat – “Big Booties”
J Dilla – “The Diff’rence”
Common ft. Bilal & MC Lyte – “A Film Called (Pimp)”
Bahamadia – “One-4-Teen (Jay Dee Remix)”
Erykah Badu – “Didn’t Cha Know”
Jaylib – “React”
Keith Murray – “The Rhyme (Slum Village Street Remix)”
Slum Village – “Eyes Up”
and a great drawing: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6244/378/1600/J_Dilla.jpg
http://analoggiant.blogspot.com/2006/02/tuesday-dig-is-tribute-to-j.html
Mp3: Daft Punk – “Aerodynamic (Slum Village remix)” *
Mp3: J Dilla – “Lightworks”
Mp3: Slum Village – “Fall in Love”
Mp3: Slum Village – “The Things You Do (Madlib Remix)”
Mp3: The Pharcyde – “Runnin’ (Jay Dee Remix)”
http://rhymesandbeats.com/2006/02/tribute-to-jay-dee-by-dj-audio1.html
Mix MP3:
Intro
Wale Oyejide feat. Jay Dee-Theres A War Goin On
J-88-Keep It On
Jaylib-The Message
Janet Jackson feat. Q-Tip-Gone Til It’s Gone (Ummah Jay Dee’s Mix)
1st Down-It Dont Get No Liver Than This
Common-Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World)
Slum Village-I Dont Know
J-88-The Look Of Love
Common-Dooinit
Jaylib-The Red
Phat Kat-Dedication To The Suckers
Slum Village-Players
The Pharcyde-Runnin
A Tribe Called Quest-Find A Way
A Tribe Called Quest-1nce Again
The Pharcyde-Drop
Jay Dee feat. Pete Rock-Niggaz Know
J Dilla-Lightworks
Common feat. Slum Village and Jay Dee-Thelonius
Q-Tip-Wait Up
Common-The Light
Slum Village feat. J Dilla-Reunion
Jay Dee-Fuck The Police
Jay Dee-Think Twice
Phat Kat-Dont Nobody Care About Us
Jaylib feat. Frank N Dank-Mcnasty Filth
J Dilla-Two Can Win
http://www.spinemagazine.com/inc/dailyNews.inc.php
13 February 2006 13:48 Posted by TOBES
Busta Rhymes ‘Show Me What You Got’ produced by Jay Dee. Taken from his album ‘Anarchy’, released in 2000. (mp3).
14 February 2006 01:38 Posted by TOBES
Tribe Called Quest featuring Jay Dee ‘That Shit’ – taken from Funkmaster Flex’s ‘The Mixtape Vol. 3’ released in 1998. (mp3).
14 February 2006 02:00 Posted by TOBES
Jay Dee related videos: Jaylib featuring Frank N Dank ‘McNasty Filth’, Med ‘Push’, Busta Rhymes featuring ODB ‘Woo Hah Got You All In Check (RMX)’, Pharcyde ‘Drop’ and ‘Runnin’’, A Tribe Called Quest ‘1nce Again’ and ‘Find A Way’. Thanks to Richie for the links.
15 February 2006 12:25 Posted by TOBES
Jay Dee ‘The $’ – taken from his ‘Ruff Draft’ EP, released in 2003. (mp3).
http://cyclops45.blogspot.com/2006/02/j-dilla-panemonium-rip.html
J-Dilla – Pandemonium
A Tribe Called Quest – “That Shit (SV Remix)” from the album 60 Minutes of Funk, Vol. 3
A Tribe Called Quest – “Find a Way” from the alum The Love Movement
Q-Tip – “Move”, a relatively new track floating around the internet a few month’s back
R.I.P. Jay Dee.
Comments for "The World Misses Jay Dee"
thank you for this thorough round-up. if interested, here is an obituary i contributed to popmatters.
— dan Feb 16, 11:55 AM
sorry, here is the link:
http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060216-jaydee.shtml
— dan Feb 16, 11:58 AM
Nice work Dan.
I added it with an excerpt to the list above.
Thanks
— rafi Feb 16, 01:38 PM
Great tribute, Rafi.
— Nikhil P. Yerawadekar Feb 16, 07:08 PM
Thanks for the link bro.
Great job you have done here. Amazing how we have all come to celebrate his discography. For that is the only way most of us have really known him.
IP
— Idiotproof Feb 16, 11:28 PM
fantastic idea to do a tribute by pulling together excerpts from the best Dilla posts and a sampling of the music files & lists folks put up in the first few days after Jay Dee’s death. And thanks for including my little tribute post. Dilla will be sorely missed, to say the least.
—peace
— matt Feb 17, 12:26 AM
Hey Rafi,
Thanks for the shout. I love how you put this together; your site is always so thoughtful and measured. It’s incredibly admirable. Keep up the great work.
— Joey Feb 17, 12:56 AM
R.I.P Jay Dee
What a great collation of tributes.
Nice work ‘Oh Word’.
We played a few tracks of his on
(my & DJ Myme’s radio show) Dope Sounds, broadcast on
http://www.23break.com.
We will be playing more of his work this week.
— Size 13 Feb 17, 08:38 PM
The first time i really heard dude was when he laced mad skillz first joint. Although there was production from Large Pro and the Beatnuts, Jay Dee’s beats really stood out as dope. Its a special moment in music when the lyrics are equally matched with the music in a good way. I mean, you got whack dudes rhymin’ to whack beats all the time… that’s like the norm… but what skillz bought with the words, Jay Dee matched with the sonics. Guess Tip knew the time for real with both artists. Maybe it was just the time in my life when the album came out, but it seems to me that this release was the apex of both of their careers artistically. I know mad heads will disagree… like i said, i think its just me… but it seemed to be both their moments. I was jaded by the tribe stuff, cause once he joined, you could tell that tribe was over. Its like PR & CL…, when the magic was gone, they split… but i feel like post midnight, tribe baited the fans… if tribe would have broken up after Midnight, they would be legendary… and i know to a lot of you they are… but to me, it was like staying in a marriage too long… and Jay Dee was like the child who was suppose to bring the love back… and he did to an extent, but i think that energy could have went into an untainted concept… but what the fuck do i know. i never sold records. but back to my mans JAY DEE, RIP!
— chuckie chill Feb 18, 03:53 PM
As a Det. native, we’re feeling the loss heavily here as well. Though not as well-known pubicly, as some of the other producers, Dilla retains a strong devoted hard-core following here spearheaded around Houseshoes, the essVe Camp and others. He will be sorely missed but his influence will last forever.
Personally, I’m still f*&ked-up behind it as we all are, but he was a genius and one of the best to bless a MPC. I love the link.
Another dilla tribute (sue me, I’m not a DJ)at
Friday Fish Fry – Music, News, Junk, & Funk
http://vantanna.podomatic.com
— Vantanna Mar 1, 11:58 AM
Detroit music, Jay was the man.
No one did it like him, all praise due.
Check the two part tribute:
www.lowsound.ca/features.html
peace.
— Mike H. Mar 14, 09:24 PM
Peace-WEll I must say being an old school guy who grew up in the Bronx (early 80’s) I saw this life turn into Hip Hop and for me there were only a few producers that did it for me-Bomb Squad, Premier, Pete Rock, Dre, Rza and JayDee. The past few years I looked to Dilla to bless me with that…that thing you know? Neptunes could not do it, Timbo did it ever so often but Dilla did it all the time! Peace to the Yancey fam because without their direction and guidance we would have had to listen to the dirty South elementary rhymes and casio beats even more than now. To all you future beatmakers out there please do not be afraid of any of these artists. All of them I mean all of them bit their styles from Dilla, PR and Premo anyway so Push forward and create that thing in your own mind and you too can be blogged about respectfully. Peace 2 U. Enjoy your new journey Dilla we will be blazin U for a LONG TIME TO COME!!!
— BABA SEO Mar 18, 11:13 AM
My nigga J Dee A.K.A. J Dilla you represent true real productor of hiphop actualit…
Your songs live in all heart peoples of hiphop…
R.I.P. Jay Dee
Brasil is represent
— Anderson Andy Mar 31, 12:17 AM
My J Dilla Tribute Show is still up at nuwaveradio.co.uk Parts 1 & 2…
http://www.nuwaveradio.co.uk/01.ram
http://www.nuwaveradio.co.uk/02.ram
Rest In Peace Illa Dilla…
— Denz Apr 5, 07:02 AM
wat can i say? wat can any of us truly say about the Don of all hiphop production. The guy was a sensei, a jedi knight of beats. Darth Dilla all the way! i have too much to say about this guy but its prob been said already said. Wat i will say is, when i 1st heard Slumvil fantastic Vol.2, when i heard track one, u know the one with the alram clock and then that quad timing base beat, u know one of those head nodders, and then the bass guitar sample kicks in and then WAHMMMMM!!!! out of nowhere, those crazy jazz chords on that Electris P. my days. By the time i got to”hold tight” i was dribbling. Never b4 had i heard hiphop beats so subtle, so smooth, so crafted.
And then the way he dropped those surreal, ambient crazy sounds in the chorus that u cant quite pin down. the way he chopped up “the perfect snare”. the sound claps and finger clicks, the dirty, dirty, dirty keys he’d serenade a track with. the innovation of his later work streching the meaning of hip-hop, the way he could make an instremental track sound like an oprah, he even had different musical movements in his stuff (check Oblighetto or Think twice), the way he could make instrumental tunes where ur not desperately waiting for the MC to come in, in fact u dont want him to come in, just let the dilla do his thing, the way u can hear his craftmanship and effort in every track he did, the way u know ur not really suprised to hear the fact that he was making beats from his hospital bed just b4 he passed, the way u dont classify him as a rapper or a producer but as a musician, the way he could switch prod from rap to soul to drum n bass to funk (u heard the Jamiroquai remix???? heavy), the way he dropped those boucing hard basslines that moved ur skeletal structure on so many levels.
fav track? erm????? im not going to say cus it changes every week and i started typing up a list of my favs but i realised i was just putting down all the tracks from his albums so i stopped.
Peace out to the Dilla community, u know who u r! believe me i know wat itys like, when all ur mates are like”dilla?, sv? who dem?” ad ur like guys this dude is sooo sick!
thanx for the psace to write this essay. nuff love.
— Skitzaphrenik Jun 22, 12:29 PM
Dilla showed me a new light to hip-hop.
I don’t listen to many hip-hop artists, only a select few, and when I heard about Dilla (I’ve came to love hip-hop in the past few years of my life) I can say that it took me to a whole new level.
My life isn’t the same; the way I look, listen, feel and think about things…
Much praise to Jay Dee. We’ll be seeing him in the next world when it’s our time, but for now we gotta spread the word!
— RogB Jul 6, 12:38 AM
Still missing Dilla. (Still waiting for my t-shirt that proclaims as much, plus free Sankofa CD.)
— DJ Flash Jul 6, 05:41 AM
ha, it should be on its way flash. i’ll confirm with the distributors…
— Rafi Jul 6, 07:38 AM
i would thank my man jay dee for all the beatz u made 4 all the passion u gave 4 all the message u send us …..u gave me a message 2 continue in this direction ..man i love ur music foe evere and ever 4 the eternity ..god bless u
— alessandro rigato Sep 14, 10:10 AM