That means we get a big mess: gruff, elemental hip-hop ('Two for Pay Jay'), soul breaks ('Andthenagain'), dubbed out stereo panning (the whole album), neo-soul ('The Mystery) and even a Throbbing Gristle sample ('Dirty Hop'). The surprise here is that, while it's an overt homage to Dilla, Vol. 5-6 may be viewed as both requiem and retort, a dedication to a fallen friend as well as a rejoinder to Donuts. This produced a friendly rivalry that found many hip-hop heads squaring the two off against one another, trying to determine which one was the better.īeat Konducta Vol. The coincidence makes sense not only did Madlib and Dilla collaborate on Championship Sound as Jaylib, they also shared noticeably similar sensibilities: a vast knowledge and collection of jazz LPs, a fondness for sensimilla, a penchant for dubby sonic approaches and a prodigious workrate. The first was released at the exact same time as Dilla's coda. Under the moniker The Beat Konducta, Madlib has released two separate collections of work that have been constructed in a similar manner to Donuts. Sadly, days after the album was released, Dilla died from complications arising from TTP-a rare blood disease. To use a cinematic analogy, Donuts took a found footage approach, stitching together fragmented instrumentals in an attempt to tell a coherent narrative. The album, to put it simply, completely refashioned the accepted notions of how to construct an instrumental hip-hop album.

Though he spent many years as a quietly revered producer for A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots and Erykah Badu, it was Donuts that cemented J Dilla's legacy.

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