J Dilla - The Diary (VMP Purple/Orange Vinyl Me Please) | LP Record | New
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J Dilla – The Diary Vinyl Me, Please. Rap & Hip Hop – RH063
The Diary, the legendary lost album and instrumentals from J Dilla, released posthumously in 2016, is the VMP Hip-Hop Record of the Month for November 2022. It's here on exclusive 2LP Purple & Orange Marble vinyl, with lacquers cut by Cicely Balston at Alchemy Mastering at AIR and the original liner notes from Ronnie Reese.
“The idea of a non-radio friendly hip-hop album with a producer rapping over other producers’ beats was unprecedented, but perhaps on par with J Dilla’s restless, innate desire to freak out the industry. Rapping, however, was the one thing that 99 percent of the producer competition couldn’t do. You can bite a producer’s style but, as a producer, can you rap? Most can’t and, as an MC, Dilla was rhythmically one of the best producers on the microphone, treating words the same way he treated musical notes.
The Diary is undeniably the result of the iconic producer’s singular, unhampered vision, and is finally presented in its original form. ‘I’m just glad that it’s a version coming out that can stand behind his name, besides what the bootleggers have done,’ says Dilla’s mother, Maureen ‘Ma Dukes’ Yancey. For Dilla’s collaborators, friends and family alike, The Diary is the last piece of an enigmatic puzzle.”
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