“James “J Dilla” Yancey was a prodigy—an uncontainable encyclopedia of musical knowledge capable of bending textures, samples, and drum machines at his will to create some of the most astonishing music of his or any era. His inventiveness lives on, from his production work with Janet Jackson and De La Soul to his tenure in the Soulquarians to his final album and magnum opus, 2006's Donuts. Dilla's ”
