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Pause (Jay Dee Song)
"Pause" is a single by J Dilla, Jay Dee that was chosen to lead his 2001 album, ''Welcome 2 Detroit''. Besides a grunt and an ad-lib, ("Bounce"), Jay Dee doesn't perform on the song himself, but instead features his friends Frank-N-Dank, who brace the horn-laced track with suitably over-the-top braggadocio. Much of Dank's opening first is later featured in scratches on Dilla's Ruff Draft Extended play, EP song "Let's Take It Back". The appropriately titled "Featuring Phat Kat" sees his one time fellow 1st Down member Phat Kat on the mic, while Jay Dee provides a subdued, but gritty canvas for him to let loose. The song is also notable for featuring one of Jay Dee's DJ Premier-esque scratch montages. Track listing *Side A: *#Pause (feat. Frank-N-Dank) (Clean) *#Pause (feat. Frank-N-Dank) (Dirty) *#Pause (Instrumental) *Side B: *#Featuring Phat Kat (feat. Phat Kat) (Clean) *#Featuring Phat Kat (feat. Phat Kat) (Clean) *#Featuring Phat Kat (Instrumental) 2001 songs J Dilla s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J Dilla
J, or j, is the tenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is ''jay'' (pronounced ), with a now-uncommon variant ''jy'' ."J", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989) When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the ''y'' sound, it may be called ''yod'' or ''jod'' (pronounced or ). History The letter ''J'' used to be used as the swash letter ''I'', used for the letter I at the end of Roman numerals when following another I, as in XXIIJ or xxiij instead of XXIII or xxiii for the Roman numeral twenty-three. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his ''Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana'' ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome 2 Detroit
:''This is an article about the J Dilla album. For the Trick-Trick song of the same name, see Welcome 2 Detroit (song).'' ''Welcome 2 Detroit'' is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist J Dilla, released on February 26, 2001. The album followed his group Slum Village's critically acclaimed '' Fantastic, Vol. 2'', and kicked off BBE's "Beat Generation" series (producer-driven albums). ''Welcome 2 Detroit'' bears the name "Jay Dee" as well as "J Dilla", and marks the first time Dilla (who until that point was still known as Jay Dee) officially used the name J Dilla. Overview ''Welcome 2 Detroit'' is a showcase of the talent from J Dilla's hometown, introducing a pre- Slum Village Elzhi on the song "Come Get It", and making room for his longtime 1st Down partner Phat Kat on the appropriately titled "Featuring Phat Kat". The album sound ranges from grimy hardcore hip hop ("Pause") to electronic psychedelia ("B.B.E."). The track "Rico Suave Bossa Nova" is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBE Records
Barely Breaking Even (BBE) is a British record label started by two DJs, Peter Adarkwah and Ben Jolly. The name BBE comes from The Universal Robot Band's 1982 track "Barely Breaking Even". It has two sublabels: Deep Funk, and Urban Theory. BBE is also notable for its ''Beat Generation'' series of LPs. Current/former artists * BlackCoffee * Bombay Monkey *Dark Room Notes *J Dilla (deceased) *DJ Jazzy Jeff *George Pajon *Keb Darge * Keith Harris *Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales *Lady Daisey *Little Louie Vega *Masters at Work *Mike City *Mr Thing *Pete Rock *Phantogram *Printz Board *Roy Ayers * Shawn Lee *Slakah the Beatchild *DJ Spinna *Spoek Mathambo * TY *DJ Vadim *Paul Weller *will.i.am Discography Albums *1999: Keb Darge - ''Funk Spectrum: Real Funk for Real People'' *2003: Pete Rock - '' Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics'' *2004: The Foreign Exchange - ''Connected'' *2004: Pete Rock - ''Soul Survivor II'' *2005: Ski Oakenfull - ''Rising Son'' *2005: Pete Rock - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raise It Up (Slum Village Song)
''Fantastic, Vol. 2'' (also referred to as ''Fantastic Volume II'') is the second album by American hip hop group Slum Village, released on June 13, 2000. During the time of its release the group was still composed of its earliest members T3, Baatin and J Dilla. Overview The album was initially completed in 1998 for A&M Records shortly before the label became obsolete, leaving Slum Village in limbo for over a year. During this period, however, the group's producer Jay Dee greatly increased his profile through work with artists such as Common, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu and A Tribe Called Quest. At the same time tremendous acclaim from notables such as Questlove of The Roots and Q-Tip built up anticipation for the long-delayed LP. Slum Village eventually found an outlet with Goodvibe Recordings & Barak Records, and released ''Fantastic, Vol. 2'' in spring 2000. Although sales were slow (due to heavy bootlegging) the group nevertheless had a huge impact on the underg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank-N-Dank
Frank n Dank (real names Frank Bush and Derrick Harvey) are an American hip hop group from Detroit, Michigan. They also go by the names Frank Nitt (previously known as Frank Nitty, which is a reference to the 1930s crime boss Frank Nitti) and Dankery Harv, and are best known for their many collaborations with the late J Dilla. Known for their party-driven, tongue-in-cheek raps, the duo first came to public attention as guests on producer J Dilla's album, ''Welcome 2 Detroit'' in 2001. Prior to this, they had been performing in their hometown, Detroit, since the mid-1990s and had released the 12"s "Everybody Get Up!" and "Me and My Man" between "Love (A Thing of the Past)", both produced by J Dilla. The group signed a recording deal with MCA Records, but their 2003 album, ''48 Hours'', was at first rejected by the label, reworked with new production and resubmitted by the group, and finally shelved by the label altogether. Bootlegs of the reworked version eventually surfaced o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruff Draft
''Ruff Draft'' is an EP reissued as a studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper J Dilla released under the moniker "Jay Dee". It was originally released in February 2003 as an EP, by his then-newly founded label, Mummy Records, and distributed by Groove Attack, a German record label. In 2007, ''Ruff Draft'' was extended, remastered, and posthumously re-released as a "solo album" by Stones Throw Records. The re-release sold 8,049 copies in its first week, J Dilla's largest first-week sales as a solo artist. Overview The original vinyl release of ''Ruff Draft'' is now out-of-print. Although the album is one of Jay Dee's lesser known works, it includes some of his most abstract and experimental work, all self-produced, and recorded in under a week. As stated in the introduction of the album, it's a noncommercial sounding lo-fi hip hop album, which sees the producer playfully toying with different styles, such as on "Nothing Like This," where his vocals are distorted and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Down
1st Down was a Detroit hip-hop group consisting of Jay Dee and Phat Kat. The duo signed to Payday Records in 1995, and released one 12", "A Day Wit' The Homies", before disbanding as a group, due to label trouble. They once again reunited for Phat Kat's '' Dedication to the Suckers'' EP, in 1999, which was produced entirely by Jay Dee. Some of their further collaborations can be found on Slum Village's '' Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1)'', Jay Dee's '' Welcome 2 Detroit'', and both of Phat Kat's solo albums, '' The Undeniable LP'' and ''Carte Blanche A blank cheque in the literal sense is a cheque that has no monetary value written in, but is already signed. In the figurative sense, it is used to describe a situation in which an agreement has been made that is open-ended or vague, and therefo ...''. Discography *No Place To Go - 12" single (1993) *A Day Wit' The Homies EP - 12" single (1995) **Track listing: **#A Day Wit The Homiez (Radio Version) **#A Day Wit The Homiez (Main Versio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phat Kat , a designer clothing company
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Phat may refer to: People *Huỳnh Tấn Phát (1913–1989), South Vietnamese politician and revolutionary *Lâm Văn Phát (1920–1998), Vietnamese army officer *Phat Wilson (1895–1970), Canadian amateur ice hockey player *Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839), nicknamed Phat Duke Other uses *Phat (card game), a variant of the game All-Fours *Phat (comics), a fictional character in Marvel comics See also *Fat (other) *Phat Farm Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive. He co-founded the hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris. Simmons' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Premier
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), known professionally as DJ Premier (also known as Preemo), is an American record producer and DJ. He is considered one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time. He was half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr—alongside the rapper Guru (rapper), Guru—and presently forms half of the hip hop duo PRhyme, together with Royce da 5'9". Early life Christopher Edward Martin was born in the Fifth Ward, Houston, Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas on March 21, 1966. He was then raised in Prairie View, Texas, before moving to Brooklyn, New York, during his teenage years. He attended Prairie View A&M University, where he honed his musical skills as the campus DJ, and he also occasionally performed with the Marching Storm band. Musical career Premier is known for producing all of Gang Starr's songs as well as many of those composed by the Gang Starr Foundation. Notable artists he has worked with include Anderson Paak, Anderson .Paak, AZ (rapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
