Look at that, a guy making hip-hop beats with an actual drum kit. whodathunkit?

FTFA:
J Dilla is a different case. Unlike the aforementioned names, when the 32-year-old beat-maker/rapper, born James Yancey, passed away at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the winter of 2006 (due to a cardiac arrest stemming from complications related to Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare and incurable blood disease), he was neither savior nor supernova. Instead, he was an underground legend in those pre-Internet days, when the term actually meant something.


Hruh?

fark. Where are the "b...b...but the artist makes the money from the concertz!!!11!!" assholes now?

farking pirates and copyright infringers.

next time i'm at a record shop and see donuts, i'm buying that joint...but i'm afraid his estate will only see a dime or two from the purchase...

I was working on a tribute album with all the proceeds to go to his mom, but the guy handling the arrangements booked out with all the beats from the artists I had helped to gather up. I had Guilty Simpson on board (with two CDs of my tracks) too...damn shame.

Maybe now we'll get stuff done...

Though now that I RTFA, looks like the lawyers are gonna eat up anything that happens...

The tribute I was working on had a bunch of beatmakers that met up through the Stones Throw message board and were influenced by Dilla...but in this day and age of lawsuits over every little thing, it will probably never come to happen.

Sad.

SubBass49:

Wow, that sucks. Worse yet, you're probably right that if you got it off the ground, the lawyers would probably eat it up.. even the article says that they don't really know who was a friend and who wasn't, so they're just stopping anything that comes around. Sad.

On a happier note, I see that you're in southern california.. if you're interested, I'm a guitarist and I do hip hop (also quite influenced by Dilla), and am always looking to hook up with people who are doing it... hit me up if you're interested-- EIP

Walt_Jizzney: fark. Where are the "b...b...but the artist makes the money from the concertz!!!11!!" assholes now?

farking pirates and copyright infringers.

How about you DIAF? You know, they might be able to pay off his debt and help his kids if they focused on the task at hand rather than trying to stop copyright infringement. File sharing "cheapens the value of his brand"? Please. All is does is drive his stock higher. He has a lot of high profile friends, a ton of respect, and unused material. What farks ya' over is spending all your time worrying about people getting free samples and not figuring out how to turn his popularity into profit.