"Most of the drums from his rap production contemporaries were quantized and adhered to the steady 4/4 time signature, but #JDilla trawled out kick drums and dragged hi-hats so each arrived when you were least expecting them. He told bassists to play their notes slightly behind the music to build tension, resulting in rap beats that staggered forward like a drunk walking through a swamp in logger boots." #Music #HipHop #Detroit #MixMag https://mixmag.net/feature/j-dilla-50th-birthday-tribute-detroit-rap-hip-hop-producer-future

J Dilla’s music will always sound like the future

On what would have been the late Detroit beatmaker’s 50th birthday, Thomas Hobbs writes about J Dilla’s unparalleled genius and how he inspired generation-after-generation of producers to move at their own pace