J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid (Vinyl)
Jay Stay Paid isn't a cash-in piece of vulturework, but a labor of love executive produced by Dilla's mother and assembled, arranged, and mixed by Pete Rock, one of Dilla's greatest influences. You couldn't come up with two people more qualified to help turn the DAT-stored scraps and sketches of Dilla's ideas into a full-fledged work of art.
The source material on Jay Stay Paid runs the gamut from 90s Ummah-era loops to beats Dilla was putting together from his hospital bed, but it stylistically falls in a general area that fits best between the dense but crisp boom-bap of his early-aughts material (i.e., Welcome 2 Detroit and Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 2) and the grimier, more frenetic beat-tape rawness of his Jaylib/Donuts L.A. phase. That latter aesthetic tends to permeate the surface here, filtered through a loose radio-show concept that interjects some actual disk jockey shoutouts, comedic asides, and brief interjections from the man himself.
This can be considered the most heartfelt eulogy Pete Rock's had a hand in since "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)", and the definitive post-humous J. Dilla document, so far, from the family that misses him.
2 x Vinyl, Reissue
Tracklist:
K Jay FM Dedication
King
I Told Yall
Lazer Gunne Funke
In The Night / While You Slept (I Crept)
Smoke
Blood Sport
CaDILLAc
Expensive Whip
Kaklow (Jump On It)
Digi Dirt
Dilla Bot VS. The Hybrid
Milk Money
Spacecowboy Vs. Bobble Head
Reality TV
On Stilts
Fire Wood Drumstix
Glamour Sho75 (09)
10,000 Watts
9th Caller
Make It Fast (Unadulterated Mix)
24K Rap
Big City
Pay Day
See That Boy Fly
Coming Back
Mythsysizer
KJay And We Out
Jay Stay Paid isn't a cash-in piece of vulturework, but a labor of love executive produced by Dilla's mother and assembled, arranged, and mixed by Pete Rock, one of Dilla's greatest influences. You couldn't come up with two people more qualified to help turn the DAT-stored scraps and sketches of Dilla's ideas into a full-fledged work of art.
The source material on Jay Stay Paid runs the gamut from 90s Ummah-era loops to beats Dilla was putting together from his hospital bed, but it stylistically falls in a general area that fits best between the dense but crisp boom-bap of his early-aughts material (i.e., Welcome 2 Detroit and Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 2) and the grimier, more frenetic beat-tape rawness of his Jaylib/Donuts L.A. phase. That latter aesthetic tends to permeate the surface here, filtered through a loose radio-show concept that interjects some actual disk jockey shoutouts, comedic asides, and brief interjections from the man himself.
This can be considered the most heartfelt eulogy Pete Rock's had a hand in since "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)", and the definitive post-humous J. Dilla document, so far, from the family that misses him.
2 x Vinyl, Reissue
Tracklist:
K Jay FM Dedication
King
I Told Yall
Lazer Gunne Funke
In The Night / While You Slept (I Crept)
Smoke
Blood Sport
CaDILLAc
Expensive Whip
Kaklow (Jump On It)
Digi Dirt
Dilla Bot VS. The Hybrid
Milk Money
Spacecowboy Vs. Bobble Head
Reality TV
On Stilts
Fire Wood Drumstix
Glamour Sho75 (09)
10,000 Watts
9th Caller
Make It Fast (Unadulterated Mix)
24K Rap
Big City
Pay Day
See That Boy Fly
Coming Back
Mythsysizer
KJay And We Out
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