he produced Janet's "Got Til It's Gone" 4 those of you who didn't know him.

WHAT

Is this "Plastic Dreams" Jaydee?

We better not be talking about J Dilla, who produced "Got 'Til It's Gone".

can't be the same Jaydee!

I'm calling bullshit on this until mochalox produces the information source.

what the fuck??? Im w/ Cinistercee on this one. Just the facts, Jack.

I hope you're shitting me...

unkemptpueblo said:

word.. me an' unkemptpueblo gonna reorganize your ass if you got the facts wrong on this one, mochalox.

sextonseven said:

Oh, this is Jay Dee (two words) not Jaydee. My mistake.

sextonseven said:

Well we don't know; I can't confirm this info anywhere.

CinisterCee said:

Same here. Checked MTV, allhiphop, Eonline...nothing.

Damn. check the OKAYPLAYER board. Sorry to have doubted you, Mochalox, but this is pretty heavy. My bad.

It's true. T3 of Slum Village confirmed it. And it's been confirmed by Okayplayer as well. Dilla gave everything he had to the music world hopefully his legacy will be treated with respect. He had a great career and even had Prince on a track "Star 69" . Worked with more people than one could hope for. Keep making sounds in the afterlife Mr Dilla.

R.I.P.

Shit!!! I can't say I'm suprised. I knew he was ill. But damn...
RIP -- No one will ever come close to doing the things you did for R&B and hip-hop.
[Edited 2/10/06 14:42pm]

I DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE THIS BUT IT IS TRUUE

OH MY GOD!!

FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR... Discography.

SOURCE: THE OKAYPLAYER BOARD

DAMN!

sinisterpentatonic said:

Lord. it is true. God bless him.

From SOHH:

Hip-Hop producer/MC Jay Dee, also known as J Dilla, has reported passed away earlier today (February 10) in a hospital in Los Angeles, due to liver complications.

The beatmaker has been sick for an unspecified amount of time. His latest album, Donuts, was released earlier this week.

Dilla, who was a founding member of Slum Village and a member of A Tribe Called Quest's production team The Ummah, is best known for producing tracks for Busta Rhymes, Common, De La Soul, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, and The Pharcyde.

Dilla has more recently worked with Ghostface Killah, Kanye West on Com's critically acclaimed album Be, as well as Champion Sound with fellow quirky producer Madlib.

Besides Donuts, he released another solo LP, Welcome To Detroit, in 2001, and has another album dropping later this year on Stones Throw Records.

Longtime fan Pharrell of The Neptunes, has gone on record calling Dilla one of his "favorite producers of all time."

Jay Dee will be sorely missed. SOHH will be sure to provide you with more information as it becomes available.

Wow, this is very sad.

This is a crushing blow to me. My feelings are so hurt right now. Damnit! The most beautiful souls always leave us too soon! God bless him.


I am truly heartbroken.

From mtv.com
http://www.mtv.com/news/a...lines=true

Jay Dee — Producer For Common, Busta And Tribe — Dies
02.10.2006 7:04 PM EST

Also had rap career as J Dilla, including just-released LP Donuts

Jay Dee, a.k.a. J Dilla, the Detroit producer and rapper revered by his peers for his work with A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village and Common, died Friday (February 10). He was 32.

Tim Maynor, Jay's manager since 1999, said he died Friday morning in Los Angeles, but he had no details on the cause of death. Dee, born James Yancey, had been battling kidney problems in recent years, but Maynor believed he had recovered.

"He was the best ever, and very underappreciated," Maynor said. "Dilla was very reserved, quiet, all he wanted to do was make beats, make music. It wasn't about the glitz and glory. He wasn't doing it for the spotlight at all. He's a dinosaur who will be missed."

"I am devastated at the world's loss of a musical genius of Charlie Parker proportions," Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson of the Roots said. "Too often we bestow the 'greatest' title upon those who have the attention of the press and the charts and radio. But if you were to secretly ask the most praised hip-hop producers, if given a top three, who they fear the most, Dilla's name would chart on everyone's list, hands down. I am fortunate to have known this man. He inspires me to perfect my craft in every way. Dilla was and will always be my hero."

"Me and Jay Dee were very, very, very, very good friends," said D12's Proof, who got his first tattoo with Jay Dee, an "FC" for Funky Cowboy, their pre-Slum Village/ D12 group. "He produced my first demo. As a producer, he is one of the most influential producers ever, even up to Kanye West or Just Blaze. Jay Dee had a signature sound that a lot of people were influenced by. People will never understand his genius. It's a shame that he didn't get the light of a Dr. Dre or Timbaland or Neptunes, but he took more of a jazz-musician approach to the whole game. He was truly a mastermind."

As J Dilla, the rapper released an album titled Donuts just Tuesday and was scheduled to release another one, The Shining, in April. Maynor said he was also two tracks away from finishing a third release for 2006. "He never stopped working," he said.

In December, Jay toured Europe performing in a wheelchair, due to problems with his knees, Maynor said. When his manager suggested he postpone the trek, the producer said it was something he had to do. "Maybe he knew something we didn't," Maynor said.

Jay came to prominence in the mid-'90s producing tracks for the likes of Common, D'Angelo, De La Soul, Pharcyde and Busta Rhymes, as well as working as part of Tribe's production team, the Ummah, and in his own group, Slum Village.

"He was a trendsetter, the soul sound [in hip-hop] is really Jay Dee," RJ Rice, founder of Slum's label, Barak Records, said. "I don't know if he'll ever get credit for it or not, most people just copied him."

Jay was born and raised in the Conant Gardens neighborhood of Detroit, attending Pershing High School with his eventual Slum Village mates Baatin and T3.

"I'm f---ed up, my n---a just passed away," T3 wrote on his MySpace page Friday.

After recording 1996's underground Fantastic, Vol. 1, Slum Village signed to GoodVibe Recordings and released 2000's Fantastic, Vol. 2. After releasing Best Kept Secret under the alias J-88 the following year, the group returned in 2002 with Trinity (Past, Present and Future) featuring Jay in a limited role.

Dee left the group that year and released Welcome 2 Detroit, kicking off U.K. indie label BBE Music's "Beat Generation" series. He also formed a group with Madlib called Jaylib and released Champion Sound in 2003.

He spent 2004 working on a variety of albums, including Common's Be, as well as his underground instrumental "beat tapes," but also spent some of the year hospitalized.

"What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right," Dee told Urb magazine in 2004. "He told me that if I'd waited another day, I might not have made it."

"Sometimes that fixation can be a good thing and sometimes it can be bad. There'd be days when I wouldn't eat at all because I'd be in the basement working all day," he said in the interview. "This is definitely my second chance, my wakeup call. I still love the music, but I wouldn't put it first in my life. It's family first, and then everything else."

Proof said Jay always told him he was feeling fine, but the close friends seemed to only talk on the phone in recent years. "It didn't hit me until today, but I think he just didn't want his friends to see him in that light," Proof said. "He wanted us to remember him how it was."

dreamfactory313 said:

that's beautiful

CinisterCee said:

DAMN, this brotha had some extensive work, that list is quite impressive. I didn't know he was in the game that long but that's a testament to his great work, he will surely be missed.

The most beautiful souls always leave us too soon! God bless him.


I feel the same way.

Way too young.

RIP

Damn. I feel bad because I've never even heard of the brotha but read who he's worked with and I'm a fan of most of those cats. Damn. What a loss.