how many classics that everyone know. he's like the Big L of producers, cats swear he the goat but the facts aint back it up.
Runnin
The Light
1nce Again
Didn't Cha Know
He executive produced D'Angelo's entire Vodoo album
The album was very meh but Find A Way was great
those are just some of them most heads probably know
I say it whenever these sort of threads pop up, non-producer heads don't get it. It's not just "Questlove disciples" pretending he's a GOAT. Guys from Madlib, Pete Rock, Premier to DJ Spinna, 9th Wonder, and Kanye etc have all put him in that discussion. Common talked about Dr. Dre being literally giddy at meeting him when he moved out to LA in 04. There's a lot of bandwagon fans, yeah, but the ones that go out and buy heaps of vinyl and are about this life know and appreciate who he was and what he did.
Sucks we lost him when we did, and the stuff that never materialized that he put together. There was gonna be a Nas-Jay Electronica Dilla produced album. Two more albums at least of Jaylib material. Drake has said before he would have put him all over his albums. There was supposed to be this:
[ame=http://soundcloud.com/bboldt/notorious-b-i-g-the-ugliest]Notorious B.I.G. - The Ugliest [Produced by J. Dilla] by BBoldt on SoundCloud - Hear the world[/ame]
As legend has it in 1996 Dilla produced a track known as “The Ugliest” for frequent collaborator Busta Rhymes on which The Notorious B.I.G. dropped a guest verse. Only problem was this was during the ongoing and increasingly hostile Bad Boy-Death Row rift, and B.I.G.’s verse flagrantly went after 2Pac. Busta apparently wasn’t too keen on the idea of getting caught up in the beef, and despite an attempt by Puffy to buy the beat from Busta for B.I.G.’s use, the song—which, incredibly enough, was also to feature Nas—never reached completion as originally conceived. Later, B.I.G.’s verse would be resurrected (sans Jay’s beat) for his posthumous Born Again album on the song "Dangerous MCs."
Breh's not "Big L" at all. His career lasted 11 years and spanned hundreds of production credits. He was also never really comfortable with being "famous", he took the Madlib route: "I don't make music for people, I make music I like". There was that story about The Roots being at the Grammys for their nominations from Things Fall Apart, they invited Dilla out b/c of his contributions all over the album and he turned them down to sit in his studio, watch it on TV and work on beats.
EDIT: the "hate he got for Labcabin and Stakes is High is asinine too. The tracks he produced on the former were Runnin (classic), Drop (classic), Bullshyt (one of the best on the album), Splattitorium (dope), and Somethin' That Means Somethin (not as great as the others but beat is wooo). His She Said remix blows away the album version too. The only track he produced on Stakes is High was the title track, the rest was entirely produced by De La.
Disgusting standom
