It’s a shame that a multitude of Dilla’s fans praise him only posthumously, it seems as though we should have celebrated his life over his death. I guess the phrase “better late than never” is applicable.There have been a great deal of posts about what this man has contributed not only to hip hop but the state of music, genre-bending, and crossing over. Questlove, the famed rhythm maker and percussion maker of the legendary Roots crew mentioned that he was the only artist in THIS decade to have him feel “goosebumps”. Truely,  Dilla’s influence transcends time, space, and all barriers racial, ethnic or more.

Here’s an example of the type of Ear Dilla had:

1.) Example no 1 the famed “Players( beat Slum Villlage):

1a.) Listen to Where “Players” originated: Clue. Listen at 2:18 to how “Clair” is enunciated.

For all you that didn’t pick up on it Peep this:

Common knowledge for some but definitely not all.

I know a lot of producers, artists, or people that don’t understand sampling because you are using someone else’s work to make your own. As someone strives for originality in my work, I completely understand where you are coming from. But there’s a difference in a true complete bite, where the sampling artists completely takes the hook and main melody of an original song and just spits some rhyms over it, tweaks the drums and calls it his own. It takes a truely transcendent mind and ear, as long with an understanding of melody/harmony, to use an old white folk song to produce one of the illest underground hip hop staples of all time.