The new instrumental hip-hop album from Jay Dee comes out today. He's produced tracks for Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kweli, etc. I liked the 3 or 4 songs posted on his Myspace page, but I don't know if it's worth picking up. The majority of the tracks are under 2 minutes, and the CD is $13.99 at Best Buy and $12.99 at Circuit City. Does anyone have this, or has anyone heard the full album?



Link to J Dilla's Myspace
Link to download "Airworks" mp3 from the Stones Throw website

Track Listing:
01. Donuts (Outro)
02. Workinonit
03. Waves
04. Light My Fire
05. The New
06. Stop
07. People
08. The Diff'rence
09. Mash
10. Time: The Donut of the Heart
11. Glazed
12. Airworks
13. Lightworks
14. Stepson of the Clapper
15. The Twister (Huh, What)
16. One Eleven
17. Two Can Win
18. Don't Cry
19. Anti-American Graffiti
20. Geek Down
21. Thunder
22. Gobstopper
23. One for Ghost
24. Dilla Says Go
25. Walkinonit
26. The Factory
27. U-Love
28. Hi.
29. Bye.
30. Last Donut of the Night
31. Welcome to the Show

I loooove Jay Dee's production on Like Water for Chocolate, and to a lesser extent his stuff with Slum Village.

What did he produce for 2CQ?

I got this album, haven't heard it yet...

He produced some songs for their two newer albums, "Beats, Rhymes & Life" and "The Love Movement."

J Dilla. My brother told me he passed away today from liver failure.

horrible. r.i.p. dilla.

R.I.P. Dilla

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5355

Man, I just read about this on another site.

Hip-hop died for me today, we lost this amazing talent way too soon.

This is too bad. As big a name as he's been in hip hop (underground especially) with the Common album, Ghost's Fishscale, and Donuts, he was about to blow up nationally. Too bad he won't get to see it.

SOHH's saying it was lupus. What a shock. Honestly he was a classic producer with a style that was so necessary for hip-hop. RIP.

http://sohh.com/articles/article.php/8330