📚 J Dilla Biography : The Life & Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm 📚 | (Book Discussion)

[KingsOfKings]

The biography of James Yancey (!!!) will be released February 1st. The author Dan Charnas is a professor at NYU/Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, who also wrote an excellent chronicle of the business of hip-hop called The Big Payback. We all spoke to Dan in the years he spent independently writing this book and were impressed with both his understanding of the work of J Dilla and his ability to make sense of his timeline.

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

 

[KingsOfKings]

LL j dilla

 

[aceboon]

Got my copy but work been hectic, can't wait to dive into this

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Ordered my copy of rappcats. As a breh who was a Dilla fan in real time - very excited to read it

Charnas wrote the book that the VH1 show 'The Breaks' was based on too. I'm still mad as shyt that show got cancelled.

 

[NYK Loyalist]

Got my copy last night

 

[jensyao]

saw they had an audiobook of this on amazon...they could have capitalized and released some dilla beats for the B side of the audiobook as a reference guide with the text so readers can follow along to the progression of his beats

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

saw they had an audiobook of this on amazon...they could have capitalized and released some dilla beats for the B side of the audiobook as a reference guide with the text so readers can follow along to the progression of his beats

I have both the physical copy of the book and audio book. When the narrator of the audio book is talking about particular beats of Dilla(and this is done with Pharcyde's "bullshyt") they will play the beat in the background. I personally still love reading books but will listen to a couple chapters at the gym on the bike and in the sauna.

 

[jensyao]

I have both the physical copy of the book and audio book. When the narrator of the audio book is talking about particular beats of Dilla(and this is done with Pharcyde's "bullshyt") they will play the beat in the background. I personally still love reading books but will listen to a couple chapters at the gym on the bike and in the sauna.

that's fire, I still need to go through this myself...a part of me want to upload the audiobook so more people hear about dilla's legacy after all these years but i don't want to fukk up anybody's money or hard work

 

[KingsOfKings]

I believe it's up for download over on z library

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

that's fire, I still need to go through this myself...a part of me want to upload the audiobook so more people hear about dilla's legacy after all these years but i don't want to fukk up anybody's money or hard work

yeah, that's why I don't upload audiobooks anymore I have damn near 150 of them from my audible account. NO lie. And it's probably more. At the same time, I have hundreds of books so I think producers of content should be paid for it. Thats why I still buy albums of my favorite artists

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Imma place my order for it on Amazon today. I’m gonna hit up my favorite Black bookstore later today with my friend after I’m done with work so maybe I’ll see it there if Dilla Time has been distributed to brick & mortar bookstores. I absolutely LOVE Dilla’s sound, most especially the sounds he used from 1996 to 2002.

 

[chiefdogg]

Copped mines when preorders started got it on Tuesday haven't cracked it open yet.

 

[KingsOfKings]

Here's the mobi file guys

Z-Library single sign on

 

[SupaVillain]

Just got my copy!

 

[NoStressB]

One of the best music books I've read in a long time