Artist: Jay Dee
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Ruff Draft EP
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Frequently and rightly set in the same circumstance as DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Kanye West, Jay Dee built and sustained a high standing as a producer's manufacturer piece maintaining a low profile. When Pharrell Williams appeared on BET's 106 & Park in 2004, he excitedly declared that Jay Dee was his favorite producer and told an audibly stumped crowd that it had plausibly ne'er heard of the human race. At the time, Jay Dee had been active for easily over a ten and had netted sufficiency beats -- including the Pharcyde's "Runnin'," De La Soul's "Stake Is High," Common's "The Light," and various others with production teams the Ummah and the Soulquarians -- to be considered an all-time dandy. Alternately known as J Dilla, or merely Dilla, he ne'er produced a mainstream smash and, in many cases, his
