New J Dilla Album Due This Summer

[Elano]

Ma Dukes exec produces, Pete Rock mixes and arranges

When psych-rap producer J Dilla died of complications from lupus in 2006, he left behind a huge amount of unreleased material, almost all of it good or at least listenable. And since his death, he's reached almost Tupac-like levels of posthumous productivity. On June 2, Nature Sounds will add to Dilla's considerable legacy with Jay $tay Paid, a collection of 25 unreleased Dilla beats presented in just about the coolest possible way.

Dilla's mother, Maureen Yancey (aka Ma Dukes), executive produced the album. In a press release, she's got this to say about it: "It wasn't rushed, and it wasn't haphazard. This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. It's mind blowing...this is like the missing links to Dilla's legacy."

Even better: Pete Rock, Dilla's creative idol, mixed and arranged the album. Given that Dilla spent most of his career building on ideas laid down by Pete Rock and fellow early-90s rap production auteurs like Large Professor, Rock is a great choice to put this thing together. The mix will be mostly instrumental, but a few Dilla-friendly rappers make guest appearances, including DOOM, Raekwon, and the Roots' Black Thought. We've got the tracklist below:

Jay $tay Paid:

01 KJay FM Dedication
02 King
03 I Told Yall
04 Lazer Gunne Funke
05 In the Night (Owl N Out) - While You Slept (I Crept)
06 Smoke [feat. Blu]
07 Blood Sport [feat. Lil Fame]
08 caDILLAc
09 Expensive Whip
10 Kaklow (Jump On It)
11 Digi Dirt [feat. Phat Kat]
12 Dilla Bot Vs. the Hybrid [feat. Danny Brown & Constantine]
13 Milk Money
14 Spacecowboy Vs. Bobble Head
15 Reality Check [feat. Black Thought]
16 On Stilts
17 Fire Wood Drumstix [feat. DOOM]
18 Glamour Sho75 (09)
19 10,000 Watts
20 9th Caller
21 Make It Fast (Unadulterated Mix) [feat. Diz Gibran]
22 24K Rap [feat. Havoc & Raekwon]
23 Big City
24 Pay Day [feat. Frank Nitty]
25 See That Boy Fly [feat. Illa J & Cue D]
26 Coming Back
27 Mythsysizer
28 KJay and We Out

[NotoriousTDA]

sweet deal

[Cali Climate]

Nice guest list.

[Soopahigh]

Awesome 
Dilla was a beast on the boards and pete rock is a legend