Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J Dilla — a.k.a Jay Dee, a.k.a. James Dewitt Yancey — was a pioneering hip-hop producer who never worked on a “hit” record, ...

Today, Feb. 7, the late and great hip-hop maestro James Yancey, aka J Dilla, would have celebrated his 40th birthday. Sadly, the influential producer passed away on Feb. 10, 2006, after a long bout ...

The legacy that J Dilla left behind after his tragic death in 2006 is largely as a producer but his newest posthumous album, The Diary, gives a boost to his power as an MC. J Dilla is regarded as one ...

After winning both an Oscar and Peabody Award for his Summer Of Soul documentary, Questlove is ready to embark on new filmmaking projects. Today, The Roots drummer has been announced as an executive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J Dilla's daughters Ty’Monae Whitlow (left) and Ja’Mya Yancey (right) model items from the new "Detroit Pistons x J Dilla" retail ...

Black Thought once called J Dilla the greatest hip-hop producer of all time but if you asked the average hip-hop fan, they might not be able to name one song the Detroit beatmaker produced. That’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J Dilla’s brother believes that Kanye West wouldn’t have reached the level of success and popularity he attained as an artist if ...

The Listening: New Music From T.I., Tyler, The Creator, Quavo, Steve Lacy with SZA, GloRilla & Pooh Shiesty, Muni Long and More This week’s new music Friday also features Remy Ma, Benny The Butcher, ...

Last spring, a Michigan record store owner named Jeff Bubeck hit the jackpot when he stumbled upon thousands of lost items in a storage unit that once belonged to the late J Dilla, including thousands ...

Perhaps we should start this list off by saying, technically, no one J Dilla song is better than the other. When we think about our fallen brother in beats, we don't have one negative thing to say ...

The classically trained virtuoso Miguel Atwood-Ferguson grew up listening to Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. He started playing the violin when he was four, began composing orchestral music at 10 and ...