The J Dilla beat tape includes instrumental versions of "It's Goin' Down," "The Jam," and "Runnin'." Mad Skillz recently restored a beat tape the late J Dilla once gave to him. On Monday, Skillz ...

Something interesting is happening in the “Progressive R&B” category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Four of the six nominated albums contain songs that bear the unmistakable rhythmic signature of a ...

HOV’s personal epiphanies will help you reach some new measure of clarity, too. In an oral history celebrating the 20th-anniversary of Things Fall Apart, The Roots' co-founder detailed how nearly ...

What a blessed evening to be a J Dilla fan. Fresh out the press, a new compilation tape of the gawd's presumably more electrified sonic constructions is on the way in the form of the 40-track ...

Fresh off the release of his documentary, ‘Like Ah Boss,’ and a record-breaking 12th Road March title, the King of Soca reflects on reinvention, cultural unity and why he believes Caribbean music is ...

Pulling from his past and present, JAY-Z delivered an all-time performance at Yankee Stadium on Friday night. In related J Dilla news, the producer's 2001 solo debut, Welcome 2 Detroit, is getting a ...

The Listening: New Music From Coco Jones, Future, Ne-Yo, DJ Premier and Alchemist, Bryson Tiller, Kelela, J. Cole and More This week’s new music Friday also features Tank, Ciara, The-Dream, Snoop Dogg ...

The Listening: New Music From Ken Carson, Rico Nasty, Nipsey Hussle & Bino Rideaux, Jorja Smith with WizKid, Larry June and More This week’s new music Friday also ...

‘The Greatest’ gets a Prime Video release date and a first-look teaser. 2 hours ago "I'm extremely selective with who I give them to, which is why I haven't given them to anybody except Raekwon and ...

This week’s new music Friday also features Jacquees, Jim Jones, Y.G., Polo G, and Larry June. But it does appear that the estate has been heeding the call for more joints from the vault. And we're not ...

Dilla Time by Dan Charnas MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux One way to conceive Dilla is as the 21st-century James Brown, whose edict that every Famous Flame was playing a drum bore fruit with the seminal ...

“You could die in a second,” Joey Bada$$ coolly observes on “Two Lips,” a track that features a previously unused beat by the influential producer J Dilla, who died in 2006 of a rare blood disorder.