J Dilla

Every musician, every artist, working from within a specific tradition or medium makes the decision whether or not to stick to or scale away from the fundamental techniques and philosophies of that tradition or medium. In this way,…

Here’s a simple truth. Within the beatmaking tradition (of the broader hip hop/rap music tradition), the more beatmakers who make beats, the more fluid the notions about what constitutes a dope beat. But hip hop/rap music, perhaps more than…