Jay Dee Magazine - News, Reviews, Albums and Videos
Magazine about Jay Dee, with all the latest news, reviews, albums, videos and free mp3 playlist.
Remembering J-Dilla -
Last week the hip-hop world celebrated the life of Jay Dee aka J-Dilla. Both his birthday and date of death fell in the same week. I first heard his music in 1996 when he began working with A Tribe Called Quest on their fourth album Beats, Rhymes and Life. He...
J Dilla Jay Stay Paid -
To a casual fan of hip-hop the name J-Dilla may not mean a lot. If you’re more interested in Anticon or Wu-Tang than the genre as a whole 'Jay Stay Paid' may not be a big deal. Change that. Like every genre hip-hop's gems are found underneath the rough and...
DJ Spinna - Sonic Smash -
Although a longstanding yet largely underrated pillar of hip-hop's sacred East coast underground, multi-faceted beat selector DJ Spinna has come to represent so much more than just rap-focused beat craft, attaching his name to various endeavours from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to George Michael. Of course, there's been no...
Slum Village ft. Colin Munroe - Faster -
Brace yourselves, Slum Village fans â€" Baatin and T3‘s latest single may come as a little bit of a surprise. Faster finds the Motown twosome diverging from the smooth-but-gritty sound they pioneered in partnership with the late J Dilla to try on something a little radio-friendlier and...
J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid -
Quebec progressive metal band Voivod have an influence that can't always be heard in today's musical climate, but can most certainly be heard through the praise bestowed upon them by artists as diverse as electronic grindcore freaks Agoraphobic Nosebleed and pop punks All. In the early to mid-'80s, Voivod combined...
Keyboardist Franz Nicolay Leaves the Hold Steady -
During Nicolay’s tenure with the Hold Steady, the group released perhaps their three most acclaimed albums, 2005’s Separation Sunday, 2006’s Boys and Girls in America and 2008’s Stay Positive. In fact, on his Albums of the Decade ballot, Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield named Separation Sunday the seventh best...
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