J Dilla passed away a mere three days after Donuts was released, leaving a stone-cold classic and a lot of unrealized potential behind him. He was also a member of the Soulquarians, a. He emerged in the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan, as a member of the group Slum Village. And by the way, he did all this from a hospital bed, where he was dying from a rare blood disease.ДЄnd then he was gone. James Dewitt Yancey (Febru February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper. He can change personas from a crazed man declaiming the end of the world to the smoothest cat on the block, no sweat. Donuts is a kaleidoscope of sounds that leaves no influence unturned, blending light, remarkable beats, dense, abrasive samples, clanging guitars and all manner of spliced moans and groans borrowed from Zulu chants and вЂ™60s soulsters, sliced and diced with manic precision.ДЄnd over top of it all is J DillaвЂ™s inimitable flow, skipping from old-school crooning one moment to skittering, dizzy blasts of rhyme in another. After rising from the rap underground in the mid 90вЂ™s as part of the group Slum Village and working with A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu and The Roots, Dilla launched his own solo career in 2001 with Welcome 2 Detroit, an innovative, stunningly assured debut that threw jazzman Donald Byrd, Afro-beat, Brazilian dance music and electronic psychedelia into the hip-hop blender and created a darkly propulsive meta-rap opus. Donuts, the 2006 masterpiece by rapper and producer J Dilla is one of those great records. Through music and lyrics and production, they immerse the listener in whatever universe theyвЂ™ve conjured through the speakers.

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