Black Thought Speaks On How Artists Got J Dilla Beats, Dilla’s Legacy And More (Video)
Every year I would go to Detroit for, like, at least a couple of days to spend with Jay Dee; so that I could be one of the first people that got his tape for the upcoming season.
– Black Thought
Imagine if your biggest fans had fans. And your beat tape was ‘distributed’ by your biggest fans making an annual sojourn to your spot to come get it… Or just listen to Black Thought tell you about how he, Common and others used to check for Dilla back in the day.
Black Thought speaks on getting beats from J Dilla and Scott Storch back in the day.
J Dilla made it all possible. His music lives through Thought and all the singers and emcees that breathed over his beats.