2 is when their work blossomed into a work that was greater then the total sum of its pieces.ĭescribed by the sensational Detroit producer/rapper Black Milk as a more ghetto version of A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village brought plenty of jazzy, soulful swing to their sound and style. 1 was the beginning of their endeavors, Fantastic, Vol. brought it back to Detroit with his buddies T3 and Baatin for the first two volumes of Fantastic. So during the peak of the Soulquarian movement, J.D. But while Dilla was able to provide sensational support for artists from Chicago and New York, nothing hits the same like achieving success in your hometown. To say he was a jazzy, soulful dude is a gross oversimplification of what the man did with an MPC and some dusty vinyl. The neo-soul hip hop movement of the late 90's among The Roots, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu and others was a seamless continuation of the Native Tongues prior to them, and you'd be hard pressed to find a mediator between the two eras more representative and essential to that transition then J Dilla.
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