post your favorite Dilla beats

[oats]

[Certain]

[trap]

[uh-oh]

I never got too big into dilla. Mainly because who he worked with was never really too much in my radar but ive liked most of what i heard. Just not to the level most weirdos online do.

Always thought this was ridiculous tho

[Certain]

There was a good, relatively short story in last week's The New Yorker about Dilla: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...llas-the-diary

I've never been a huge fan. One of his biggest acclaimed successes, Common's Like Water for Chocolate, always paled in comparison to Resurrection and Be in my opinion. And even then, my two favorite songs (and beats) on Like Water for Chocolate are produced by DJ Premier ("The 6th Sense") and James Poyser ("A Song for Assata"), even though Jay Dee produced most of the album. His first big splash was producing most of A Tribe Called Quest's Beats, Rhymes and Life, which has always felt lifeless to me.

With that said, I respect his influence. There's a reason he was always considered "a producer's producer" when he was alive. He changed the way a lot of people thought about production and how to use samples.

[The Dead Poet]

as uhoh can attest, I could literally post for hours on end about dilla beats. I met him a few times at Madlibs brother (ohno's) house when I was younger. But here's a few of my favs.




^sample for that







^story goes that this was his last beat he ever made. not sure if that's true or not...but would be fitting. It was for sure the last beat he turned in for the donuts album.

[boof]

i've rapped on all of my favorites so i will refrain

[Pharaohs Army]

@uh-oh
i'm likin that beat

[Mr. J]

those 2..