Based on nearly two hundred original interviews, and filled with graphics that teach us to feel and 'see' the rhythm of Dilla's beats, Dilla Time is a book as defining and unique as J Dilla's music itself. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical. This is the story of a complicated man and his machines his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators and his undeniable legacy. Dilla Time- the life and afterlife of J Dilla by Dan CharnasThis book is a. Here, music is a story of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. And he rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of Motown soul to funk, techno, and disco. He follows the people who kept Dilla and his ideas alive. A new book Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, out now on MCD/Farrar, Straus, Giroux chronicles the life and legacy of James. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted Detroit childhood to his rise as a sought-after hip-hop producer to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm is a 2022 biography of hip hop producer J Dilla written by Dan. Dilla and his drum machine reinvented the way musicians play. At the core of this adulation is innovation: as the producer behind some of the most influential rap and R&B acts of his day, Dilla created a new kind of musical time-feel, an accomplishment on a par with the revolutions wrought by Louis Armstrong and James Brown.

Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod, revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years.

He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty-two, he had never had a pop hit. 'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVEĮqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.

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