This is absolute dopeness right here…
We all know it’s (what would have been) the 37th birthday of J Dilla. Well, in October of 2010 jazz trio/NYU students Stray Phases (Storm Siegel on drums, Dave Mainella on piano and Evan Crane on bass) performed James’ instrumental masterpiece Donuts in its entirety. I’ve been listening to this over and over and over now, and I think all music fans will do the same. Major props to TheSmokingSection for unearthing this gem.
DOWNLOAD: Stray Phrases – J Dilla’s Donuts
this is Wack i heard this weeks ego
it SOUNDS way cooler than it really is
zilla said this on February 7th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
I was just going to ask, is it actually dope or is it just a good concept?
I’ve been playing Donuts at least once a day so I’ll give this a try before I jump to any conclusions.
red said this on February 7th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
this is dope props
1 said this on February 7th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
let us download it!
HxS said this on February 7th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
@MEKA, you have given credit to the wrong source. The Smoking Section is way late on this. Give credit where this first showed up — KevinNottingham.com, January 3rd, over a month ago.
kevinnottingham(dot)com/2011/01/03/j-dillas-donuts-as-performed-by-stray-phrases/
Real HipHopHead said this on February 7th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
this doesn’t really sound that good….
straightkillah said this on February 7th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
kevinnottingham.com blows
this shit is okay if youre into musicianship, plus its a cool idea and they do pull it off for the most part, I’d like a download link if we can get one up
Z Dub said this on February 7th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
oh what, Meka likes Dilla now? wasn’t homie talking shit on him a while ago saying he was overrated?
crackadon said this on February 7th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
how can u say this is not good
rez said this on February 7th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
> oh what, Meka likes Dilla now? wasn’t homie talking shit on him a while ago saying he was overrated?>
find exactly where i said this, and i’ll personally hand-deliver my paycheck from this month to you.
Meka said this on February 7th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
tell those people in the background to stfu.
j-tella. said this on February 7th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
“At the risk of drawing the ire of the all-important Internets community, I’ll say that I was never the biggest Jay Dee fan. Sure, he was a great producer and I liked what he did with The Pharcyde on Labcabincalifornia, and I count Slum Village’s “Fall-N-Love” among some of my favorite songs of all time (somewhere between Mary J Blige and Smif-N-Wessun’s “I Love You” and Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”), but I never considered him to be the greatest producer of all time
the collective of hip hop hypocrites will claim that J Dilla is the greatest thing to happen to urban music since Gilbert O’Sullivan
Seeing the way J Dilla is “appreciated” now is, quite frankly, almost sickening at times.”
you didn’t say all of these things? aren’t Stray Phrases part of that “sickening” appreciation since they covered Donuts after his death?
http://www.xxlmag.com/bloggers/2010/06/j-dilla-hip-hop%E2%80%99s-abused-martyr/
crackadon said this on February 7th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Beautiful
JBroadous said this on February 8th, 2011 at 12:05 am
Post of the year
djmr said this on February 8th, 2011 at 2:11 am
zilla is a fucking idiot. this is a nice spin on some of our favorite dilla joints. show some respect. especially on the man’s birthday. rest in beats j dilla.
dooso said this on February 8th, 2011 at 2:28 am
how come my post isn’t up? i was referring to this article, Meka
http://www.xxlmag.com/bloggers/2010/06/j-dilla-hip-hop%E2%80%99s-abused-martyr/
crackadon said this on February 8th, 2011 at 2:42 am
*Grabs popcorn*
komplexx904 said this on February 8th, 2011 at 5:55 am
>how come my post isn’t up? i was referring to this article, Meka
and where, exactly, did i say “j dilla is overrated?”
Meka said this on February 8th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
flamesssssss
Substizzle said this on February 8th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
>and where, exactly, did i say “j dilla is overrated?”
“I was never the biggest Jay Dee fan. Sure, he was a great producer and I liked what he did with The Pharcyde on Labcabincalifornia, and I count Slum Village’s “Fall-N-Love” among some of my favorite songs of all time”
Why did you not mention Donuts there? Unless you realized it was a masterpiece within the last 8 months or so. Also, comparing J to a McRib isn’t all that flattering.
Sincere appreciation of great art is a good thing, but your description of this post seems hypocritical. It’s a big leap to sound like you have Dilla’s b-day marked on your calendar, when one year ago you said this:
“Some of his “fans” today likely did not care about him while he was alive, and the type of faux devotion he receives from them now is just wrong.”
I’m just trying to figure out how you went from A (McRib) to B (Absolute dopeness) so fast. A change of heart is cool, especially if it means you learn to appreciate the art that Dilla created, but I get the feeling you might not have given him proper spin before. Regardless, it’s not hard to interpret your previous article as labeling him overrated.
Stray Phrase said this on February 10th, 2011 at 1:34 pm