J Dilla

J Dilla
Surnom	Jay Dee J Dilla
Nom	James Dewitt Yancey
Naissance	7 février 1974
Décès	10 février 2006  États-Unis
Activité principale	Producteur Rappeur
Genre musical	Hip-Hop/Rap underground
Instruments	Boîte à rythmes Akai MPC Platines vinyls
Années d'activité	1993-2006
Labels	Stones Throw Records
Site officiel	J Dilla sur Stones Throw Records
Entourage	Madlib (Jaylib) Busta Rhymes Frank-n-Dank Slum Village

James Dewitt Yancey, plus connu sous les noms de Jay Dee et J Dilla, était un producteur/rappeur américain qui émergea au milieu des années 90 de la scène underground hip-hop de Détroit.

Il était signé sur l'un des labels underground les plus connus, Stones Throw Records.

Il a collaboré avec de nombreux artistes notamment Busta Rhymes, Common, Slum Village (il fait partie du groupe jusqu'en 2000), A Tribe Called Quest, Madlib (avec qui il sort l'album Champion Sound sous leur nom de Jaylib), ...

Victime d'une maladie du sang, il décède des suites d'un arrêt cardio-circulatoire en 2006.

En 2007, Busta Rhymes, avec qui il collaborait fréquemment depuis les débuts en solo de ce dernier, sort une mixtape hommage, Dillagence, en utilisant des productions faites avant sa mort.

Discographie partielle

En solo

• Jay Dee - Jay Dee Unreleased Remixes 12 EP, 1997 (House Shoes Records)
• Jay Dee - "Fuck The Police", CD Single 2001 (Up Above)
• Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit, CD/LP 2001 (BBE)
• Jay Dee - Vol. 1: Unreleased, 2002 (Bling47.com)
• Jay Dee - Vol. 2: Vintage, 2003 CD/LP (Bling47.com)
• Jay Dee - Ruff Draft 2003, (Mummy/Groove Attack), (rééd. 2007, Stones Throw)
• J Dilla - Welcome 2 Detroit (Instrumentals), CD/LP 2005, (BBE)
• J Dilla - Donuts, CD/LP 2006 (Stones Throw)

Albums/Compilations posthumes

• J Dilla - The Shining, CD/LP 2006 (BBE)
• J Dilla - The Shining (Instrumentals), CD/LP 2006 (BBE)
• J Dilla - Jay Deelicious: The Delicious Vinyl Years, 2CD 2007 (Delicious Vinyl Records)
• Jay Dee - JAY LOVE JAPAN (CD/LP)

Jaylib (Jay Dee & Madlib)

(Chacun produit environ une chanson sur 2 et chacun rappe sur les instrus de l'autre)

• Champion Sound, 2003 CD/LP (Stones Throw)

Avec le groupe Slum Village

• Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1), CD/LP 1997 (Counterflow)
• Fantastic, Vol. 2, CD/LP 2000 (GoodVibe Recordings)
• J-88 - Best Kept Secret, EP 2000 (Groove Attack)

Avec le groupe Frank-n-Dank

(en tant que producteur seulement)

• 48 Hrs, CD/LP 2003 (Loose Zipper)

Avec le rappeur Que.D

(en tant que producteur seulement)

• Quite Delicious: Limited Edition, CD/LP 2003

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Production

1994

• Da Enna C - "Now" de "Throw Ya Hands In Da Air" (12" single) (Up Top)

1995

• The Pharcyde - "Runnin'", "Bullshit", "Splatittorium", "Somethin' That Means Somethin'", "Drop", "Y?" (de Labcabincalifornia)
• Little Indian - One Little Indian 12" single (Premeditated)
• Poe - Fingertips de ""Hello", CD/LP (WEA / Atlantic)
• 1st Down - A Day Wit The Homiez (Pay Day Records 12" Single)

1996

• AZ, Ray Buchanan, Scott Galbraith featuring Zhané - "When the Cheering Stops" (de NFL Jams (Import))
• Phife Dawg & Rodney Hampton - "Game Day" (de NFL Jams (Import))
• Mad Skillz - "It's Goin' Down", "The Jam"
• A Tribe Called Quest - "1nce Again", "Get A Hold", "Keeping It Moving", "Stressed Out", "Word Play" (de Beats, Rhymes and Life)
• Busta Rhymes - "Keep It Movin'", "Still Shinin'" (de The Coming)
• De La Soul - "Stakes Is High", "Itzsoweezee (HOT)" (de Stakes Is High)
• Proof - "Da Science" de Detroit Hip Hop Volume 1 (Modern Tribe LP)
• 5 Elementz - "Whutchawant", "Feed Back", "Rockshows", "Party Groove", "Janet Jacme", "E.G.O.", "Don't Stop", "Searchin'" (de The Album Time Forgot cassette) (That Was Entertainment)
• Busta Rhymes - "Woo-Hah!! (Jay-Dee Bounce Remix)", "Woo-Hah!! (Jay-Dee Other Shit Remix)" (de "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" CD/12" single)
• The Notorious BIG - "Modern day gangsta" (produced by J Dilla)

1997

• T Da Pimp - "Why You Lookin' Hard?", "You Knowwe Rockit!!!"
• A Tribe Called Quest - "Get A Hold", "Mardi Gras At Midnight" de Jam EP (Jive Records)
• Busta Rhymes - "So Hardcore" de When Disaster Strikes (Elektra CD/LP)
• Janet Jackson - ""Got 'Til It's Gone (Ummah's Uptown Saturday Night Mix)", "Got 'Til It's Gone (Ummah Jay Dee Revenge Mix)" (Virgin 12" single)

1998

• A Tribe Called Quest - "4 Moms", "Against The World", "Busta's Lament", "Da Booty", "Find A Way", "His Name Is Mutty Ranks", "Start It Up", "Steppin' It Up" (de The Love Movement)

1999

• Q-Tip - 11 morceaux de Amplified (Arista CD/LP)
• The Roots - "Dynamite" de Things Fall Apart (MCA CD/LP)

2000

• Busta Rhymes - "Enjoy Da Ride", "Live It Up", "Show Me What You Got" (de Anarchy)
• Common - 10 morceaux de Like Water For Chocolate
• De La Soul - "Thru Ya City" (de Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump)
• Erykah Badu - "Cleva", "My Life", "Didn't Cha Know", "Kiss Me On My Neck" (de Mama's Gun)

2001

• Busta Rhymes - "Genesis", "Make It Hurt" (de Genesis)
• Chino XL - "Don't Say A Word" (de I Told You So)
• De La Soul - "Peer Pressure" (Intro & Outro Monologues by Jay Dee) (de AOI: Bionix)
• Lucy Pearl - "Without You (Remix)" (Pookie/Virgin 12" single)
• Bahamadia - "One-4-Teen (Funky For You) (Jay Dee's remix)" (de BB Queen)

2002

• Busta Rhymes - "It Ain't Safe No More", "What Up", "Turn Me Up Some" (de It Ain't Safe No More")
• Common - various production & instrumental credits (de Electric Circus)
• Frank-N-Dank- "Push" 12" EP (Mummy/Groove Attack)
• Phat Kat - Dedication To The Suckers (EP) LP/CD (RonnieCash.com)
• Slum Village - "Hoes", "Let's", "One" (de Trinity (Past, Present and Future))
• Talib Kweli - "Where Do We Go?", "Stand To The Side" (de Quality)

2003

• Fourtet - "As Serious As Your Life (Remix)" 12" single (Domino)

2004

• Brother Jack McDuff - "Oblighetto (J Dilla Remix)" (de Blue Note Revisited)
• De La Soul - "Verbal Clap", "Much More", "Shoomp" (de The Grind Date)
• Proof - "Bring It 2 Me" (de I Miss The Hip Hop Shop)
• Slum Village - "Do You" (de Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit))
• T Love - "When You're Older (Ode To The Pickaninny)", "Who Smoked Sunshine?", "Long Way Back" (Featuring Dwele), "Chiquita" (de Long Way Back) ^[1]
• Amp Fiddler - "Intro", "You Play Me", "Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly" (de Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly)^[2]

2005

• Common - "Love is...", "It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)" (de Be)
• M.E.D. - "Push", "So Real" (de Push Comes To Shove)
• Moka Only - "One Time" (de The Desired Effect)
• Slum Village - "Who Are We?" (de Prequel To A Classic)
• Steve Spacek - "Dollar" (de Space Shift)
• Lawless Element - "The Shining" (de Soundvision: In Stereo)

2006

• Ghostface Killah - "Beauty Jackson", "Whip You with a Strap" (de Fishscale)
• Busta Rhymes - "You Can't Hold A Torch" (de The Big Bang)
• The Roots - "Can't Stop This" (de Game Theory)
• A.G. - Hip Hop Quoteable (de Get Dirty Radio)
• The Visionaries - "All Right" (de We Are The Ones (We've Been Waiting For))
• Oh No - "Move", "Loudah", "Pandemonium" (de Turn That Shit Up Mixtape)^[3]

2007

• Phat Kat - Nasty, My Old Label, Cold Steel, Game Time, Don’t Nobody Care About Us (de Carte Blanche)
• Common - "So Far To Go" (de Finding Forever)
• Busta Rhymes & Mick Boogie - Dillagence (mixtape)
• Illa J - "Me & My Brother" (de Illaj EP)
• Chaundon - "Strap", "Fuck Ya Damn Beats" (de Ambitions as a Writer mixtape)
• Ghostface Killah - "Murda Goons" (de Hidden Darts: Special Edition)
• Guilty Simpson - "La La", "Man's World" (de Stray Bullets' mixtape)

2008

• Akrobatik - "Put Ya Stamp on It" (de Absolute Value)
• Big Pooh - "Respect It", "Plastic Cups" (de Rapper's Deight)
• DillaGhostDoom - "Sniper Elite", "Murda Goons", "Sniperlite (Bonus Mix)" (de Sniperlite maxi vinyl)
• Guilty Simpson - "I Must Love You" (de Ode to the Ghetto)
• Illa J - Yancey Boys (album entier)
• Q-Tip - "Move", "Feva" (titre bonus) (de The Renaissance)
• Royce Da 5'9" - "Snatchies" (de Lost and Found mixtape)

2009

• MF DOOM - "Gazillion Ear", "Lightworks" (de Born Like This)
• Dynas - "The Apartment" (de The Apartment)
• Finale - "Heat" (de A Pipe Dream and a Promise)
• Guilty Simpson - "Stress"
• Mos Def - "History" (de The Ecstatic)
• Raekwon - "House of Flying Daggers", "Ason Jones", "10 Bricks" (de Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II)

2010

• Slum Village - "Lock it Down", "2000 Beyond", "We'll Show You" (de Villa Manifesto)
• Bishop Lamont, Talib Kweli - "Get'Em Girl"

Références

1. ↑ T Love - Long Way Back
2. ↑ Amp Fiddler - Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly
3. ↑ OHNO*, Roc C* & Rhettmatic - Turn That Shit Up Mixtape