![]() Well before his death, the producer’s beat tapes were widely considered early blog era grail. And it’d be full-on negligence not to acknowledge just how similar this strain of almost cosmic intervention is to other instances in which J Dilla’s unreleased music has gone into circulation, both with and without his consent. The contents of that unit were rightfully turned over to Dilla’s mother, Maureen Yancey (better known as Ma Dukes.) And ultimately, the trove was batched and disseminated unto us.īut regardless of where you stand on precisely what the estate was obligated to do with a freshly-unearthed trove of new-to-you material, it’s hard to scale just how influential those tapes have been over the years. What was already an era-defining run at the spiritual center of the Soulquarian movement extended well into the producer’s afterlife with more than a dozen official posthumous releases of previously unheard material culled from his vault, and later, a storage unit literally spilling out with hundreds of tapes, sketches, letters, records, and zip discs discovered by a local Michigan record store owner. ![]() In the 15 years since he passed, the legacy of J Dillahas swelled at a rate commensurate with his catalog. ![]() House Shoes retraces the highs and lows of his relationship with J Dilla, weighs in on the “godfather of lo-fi” debate, and breaks down his favorite bootlegs of the late producer’s work.
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