One of the undisputed GOAT Producers period.
People don't even understand that dude was a pioneer when he came out cause he was the first the bridge the gap between the digitaland analog era in production. Before you even had people like Timbaland and Swizz Beats using synths and keyboards with drum machines in the late 90s and moving away from sampling, Dilla did it in the mid 90s and set the tone for the rest of the decade and the production style within hip-hop. He had an understanding about music in general I feel that a lot of people did not. While many were sampling very well known records, he was always about either tweaking familiar samples to the point of they were unrecognizable or taking obscure records and adding his touch to it. I was a fan of his when no one even cared about Dilla as a household name like that...as someone who listened to Slum Village through college radio shows in the late 90s...his synth sub bassy type of style kind of just hit me. You either like his stuff or you don't. It's not worth fighting over...it's all about recognizing that man's impact on the game.