J Dilla's Donuts punk franco Douglas MacIntyre (Author)

Douglas MacIntyre (Author)

He carries a brand-new blue acoustic guitar

Do you like music “above the neck” (intellectually stimulating)

WHICH GAVE THE WORLD ARTISTS LIKE BEN FOLDS FIVE

The essential oral history of hip-hop

J Dilla's Donuts punk franco Douglas MacIntyre (Author)From 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