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“Today is the fourth anniversary of Dilla’s untimely passing. People are celebrating his life all month long. At Mochilla, we have spent the past year working on A Suite for Ma Dukes. Until now we have held our cards close to our chest releasing videos and entirely instrumental pieces. But today in homage to the man responsible for all this we are releasing, just to you, the first vocal performance from Suite for Ma Dukes.”

“Dwele sang Angel that night without rehearsal. It is a classic. Miguels’s arrangement is super heavy and Bob Power made it magic.”

R.I.P. J. DiLLA

The cover is self explanatory.  This mixtape, put together by Cookin’ Soul & 2DBz features Big Pun over J. Dilla Production and it doesn’t dissappoint.  Hit the jump for the tracklisting and link.

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Download::: Cookin’ Soul Presents Big Dilla: J. Dilla X Big Pun [Mixtape]

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Two blocks away from his Harlem home, 88-Keys sits back and recalls the day Q-Tip introduced him to a little detroiter named Jay-Dee during a Beats, Rhymes and Life recording session. Back in 1994, Dilla hadn’t accomplished much yet, but somehow skillz recognized skillz, and 88 gave him a beat-tape with his beeper number on it.

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Jay Stay Paid is one of the best albums this year thus far.  Production wise… not many albums can come close even if the beats were constructed a few years ago.  This is one of my favorite joints off that album… check it out.

Titus (Baatin) Glover, the Detroit rapper who co-founded the much-acclaimed Slum Village, has died.

Many details remain unknown at this point, said Hex, the group’s road manager.

Word of Baatin’s passing circulated quickly this afternoon in music circles both locally and nationally, where Slum Village has long been an exalted name in underground hip-hop.

Fellow group founder James (J. Dilla) Yancey, Baatin’s Pershing High School classmate, passed away in 2006.

Baatin, who turned 35 in March, had left Slum Village in 2002 amid health problems, but was reported to have returned for tracks on the group’s upcoming album, “Villa Manifesto.”

“He was a very spiritual brother,” said Detroiter Khalid el-Hakim, founder of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum. “He brought a spirituality to Detroit hip-hop that you didn’t see with other artists. That’s what he was known for.”

Via: DetroitFreePress

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Illa J releases his official video for the track “Sounds Like Love” from his Yancey Boys debut album which is in stores now by the way…

This right here is the sh*t..

R.I.P. J. Dilla…

Detroit Hip-Hop… This was recorded years back..  The snippet is from the upcoming full length concert dvd from their first ever Los Angeles appearance.

R.I.P. J-Dilla

Its a NEW YEAR yall… so think BIG. This is 2009 so lets get it started on a good vibe by dropping a tribute mixtape to “J Dilla” from “Termanology”.  Tracklist and download after the jump.

Happy New year to all my friends and foes… No holds barred this year.. im on my Ultimate Alliance s***, get @ me.

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