J Dilla's Donuts punk franco and suddenly everyone knew her

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It was the band's most commercially and critically successful release to date

after being broken up for decades

The essential oral history of hip-hop

J Dilla's Donuts punk franco and suddenly everyone knew herFrom a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James J Dilla Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as hip hop music is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming