author: Dan Charnas
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Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas
This is great. I learned a bunch of interesting music theory, and it was a fascinating look at hip hop starting in the mid 90s. The author didn’t know the artist — and it kind of felt like very few people that he spoke to knew him well either. Dilla didn’t feel fully formed in…