Dilla time refers to the new musical time-feel Dilla pioneered where he juxtaposed both straight and swing rhythmic feels.
The late producer produced ingenious methods and sounds, giving fans and fellow artists a new creative lens for approaching music. Known for a drunk and laid-back style, J Dilla AKA Jay Dee came up in the underground hip-hop scene in Detroit, Michigan in the mid-90s. Mojo Magazine says it created “a new gold standard for writing about music.” Charnas comes from a generation of writers who helped create hip-hop journalism and even developed a course on Dilla at NYU in 2017. “Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history,” Dilla Time is the result of four years of researching and reporting, pulling from nearly 200 interviews. Also the author was selfless enough to leave his name off the front.Ī compelling and exhaustive work, Dilla Time is unconventional journalism presented at its best. What could have been a lazy visual appeal to the subject’s vanity is instead an image that signals the zones of his many talents while nodding to the relationship between that talent and work ethic (and beats). Big ups to Dan Charnas for Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm landing a spot in The New York Times “The Best Book Covers of 2022” round-up.
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