![]() ![]() ![]() In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted Detroit childhood to his rise as a sought-after hip-hop producer to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death. Dilla and his drum machine reinvented the way musicians play. At the core of this adulation is innovation: as the producer behind some of the most influential rap and R&B acts of his day, Dilla created a new kind of musical time-feel, an accomplishment on a par with the revolutions wrought by Louis Armstrong and James Brown. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod, revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years. He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty-two, he had never had a pop hit. ‘This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius’ – QUESTLOVEĮqual 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. ![]()
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